The Old Testament, Calvin, and the Reformed Tradition

Yudha Thianto, Ph.D., is Professor of History of Christianity and Reformed Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. His publications include The Way to Heaven: Catechisms and Sermons in the Establishment of the Dutch Reformed Church in the East Indies (Wipf & Stock, 2014), and An Explorer's Guide to John Calvin (IVP, 2022).

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Part 1

Calvin’s Interpretation of the Old Testament

1 Introduction

  Yudha Thianto



2 Calvin beyond Literal and Allegorical Reading: Calvin and Old Testament Metaphors

  G. Sujin Pak



3 Jeremiah in Geneva: Pastoral Theology in John Calvin’s Lectures on the Book of Jeremiah

  Scott Manetsch



4 Calvin on “Distracting Emotions” and “Sinful Complaints” in Lament Psalms: Receiving Laments as Christian Scripture

  J. Todd Billings



5 Calvin and Oecolampadius on the Servant Songs in Isaiah

  Jeff Fisher



Part 2

The Old Testament in the Wider Reformed Tradition

6 Who Were the Israelites in the Netherlandish Reformation?

  Christine Kooi



7 In Christo Homine Restuitur: William Ames’ Exegesis of Psalm 8 and 40

  Maarten Kuivenhoven



8 “Weak Women” and “Manful Soldiers of Christ”: Gender and the Old Testament in the Political Writings of the Marian Exiles

  Allison M. Brown



9 ‘On Preaching from Isaiah against Drunkenness in Late Seventeenth-Century Debrecen’

  Graeme Murdock



10 Singing and Listening to Sermons on the Ten Commandments in Seventeenth-Century Dutch East Indies

  Yudha Thianto



11 For the Beauty of the Earth: Marilynne Robinson, John Calvin, Creation, and Humankind

  Thomas J. Davis



12 The Entangled Self: The Power of Exchange in Calvin’s Sermons on the Ten Commandments and Marilynne Robinson’s Novel of Consciousness

  Michael Vander Weele



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