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).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsPart 1Calvin’s Interpretation of the Old Testament1 IntroductionYudha Thianto2 Calvin beyond Literal and Allegorical Reading: Calvin and Old Testament MetaphorsG. Sujin Pak3 Jeremiah in Geneva: Pastoral Theology in John Calvin’s Lectures on the Book of JeremiahScott Manetsch4 Calvin on “Distracting Emotions” and “Sinful Complaints” in Lament Psalms: Receiving Laments as Christian ScriptureJ. Todd Billings5 Calvin and Oecolampadius on the Servant Songs in IsaiahJeff FisherPart 2The Old Testament in the Wider Reformed Tradition6 Who Were the Israelites in the Netherlandish Reformation?Christine Kooi7 In Christo Homine Restuitur: William Ames’ Exegesis of Psalm 8 and 40Maarten Kuivenhoven8 “Weak Women” and “Manful Soldiers of Christ”: Gender and the Old Testament in the Political Writings of the Marian ExilesAllison M. Brown9 ‘On Preaching from Isaiah against Drunkenness in Late Seventeenth-Century Debrecen’Graeme Murdock10 Singing and Listening to Sermons on the Ten Commandments in Seventeenth-Century Dutch East IndiesYudha Thianto11 For the Beauty of the Earth: Marilynne Robinson, John Calvin, Creation, and HumankindThomas J. Davis12 The Entangled Self: The Power of Exchange in Calvin’s Sermons on the Ten Commandments and Marilynne Robinson’s Novel of ConsciousnessMichael Vander WeeleIndex