For centuries prior to the Reformation, Christian theologians identified Adam's natural relationship to humankind as the basis for its participation in his own guilt and corruption. Beginning in 1532, the Dominican theologian Ambrogio Catarino challenged the validity of this traditional dogma, arguing that humankind's solidarity with Adam stemmed immediately from divine volition and ordination. According to Catarino, Adam's appointment to bear the moral cause of every human person was concretely embodied in a covenant that God established with Adam in the garden. Catarino's teaching sparked...
For centuries prior to the Reformation, Christian theologians identified Adam's natural relationship to humankind as the basis for its participation i...
Campegius Vitringa (1659-1722) of Franeker University was a biblical scholar of considerable influence for the first half of the 18th century. Similar to that of Calvin, his exegetical methodology attempts to walk a via media between the historicism of Grotius (1583-1645) and the Christocentrism of Cocceius (1603-1669). His magnum opus was a widely-acclaimed commentary on Isaiah (1720). Vitringa scholars have charted his influence along a historical-critical trajectory (including Schultens, Venema, Alberti, Manger, Delitzsch, and Gesenius) and along a Pietistic trajectory (including Franke,...
Campegius Vitringa (1659-1722) of Franeker University was a biblical scholar of considerable influence for the first half of the 18th century. Similar...