Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and the commentary
By: edited by Timothy J. Wengert & M. Patrick Graham.
Contributors: Wengert, Timothy J.. ed.; Graham, M. Patrick, ed.
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Melanchthon, Philipp, -- 1497-1560 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Melanchthon, Philipp, -- 1497-1560 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Notes: Celebration of the 500th anniversary of Philip Melanthon's birth.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Melanchthon's method and his contemporaries: The hermeneutics of commentaries: origins of Melanchthon's integration of dialectic into rhetoric / John R. Schneider.; title: Rhetoric and dialectic in Erasmus's and Melanchthon's intepretation of John's Gospel / Manfred Hoffmann.; title: Melanchthon's intepretation of Romans 5.15: his departure from the Augustinian concept of grace compared to Luther's / Rolf Schäfer. Part II. The scope of Melanchthon's interpretative work: The Biblical commentaries of Philip Melanchthon / Timothy J. Wengert.; title: Melanchthon and Greek literature / Stefan Rhein.; title: The apology as a polemical commentary / Charles P. Arand.; title: Part III. Measuring Melanchthon's impact on later commentators: Melanchthon's influence on the exegesis of his students: the case of Romans 9 / Robert Kolb.; title: 'Scimus enim quod lex spiritualis est': Melanchthon and Calvin on the interpretation of Romans 7.14-23 / Richard A. Muller.; title: Melanchthoniana in the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection / Daniel J. Rettberg.