The Biblical Accommodation Debate in Germany : Interpretation and the Enlightenment /

This book redresses a misunderstanding in the history of biblical interpretation. Hoon J. Lee provides the first study of the biblical accommodation debate of the Enlightenment. The heavily contested doctrine spurred numerous biblical scholars, theologians, and philosophers to debate the nature of d...

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Main Authors: Lee, Hoon J
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61497-7
Summary: This book redresses a misunderstanding in the history of biblical interpretation. Hoon J. Lee provides the first study of the biblical accommodation debate of the Enlightenment. The heavily contested doctrine spurred numerous biblical scholars, theologians, and philosophers to debate the nature of divine revelation communicated through human words. As biblical accommodation was coupled with historical criticism, the participants in this literary debate fought over the authority, inspiration, and inerrancy of the Bible. Examining the wide range of writing on the doctrine of accommodation, Lee
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XI, 232 pages)
ISBN: 9783319614977
Index Number: BS543
CLC: B971
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Accommodation in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic -- 3. Accommodation in Early Eighteenth-Century Germany -- 4. The Beginning of the Accommodation Debate, 1761 1789 -- 5. The Middles Years of the Accommodation Debate, 1790 1799 -- 6. The End of the Accommodation Debate, 1800 1835 -- 7.Conclusion.