Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. What is Tradition?; 2. Calvin, Tradition, and Exegesis; 3. Calvin, Tradition, and Polemics; 4. Calvin, Tradition, and Vernacular Works; 5. Calvin, Tradition, and Doctrine; 6. Tradition as a Historiographical and Cultural Problem; Epilogue.

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This study overturns core conceptions regarding Calvin revising what we know about Calvin, history, tradition, and our own situation.

About the Author

R. Ward Holder is a professor of theology at Saint Anselm College. A recipient of an National Endowment for the Humanities grant for this project, he has written among other works, John Calvin and the Grounding of Interpretation: Calvin's First Commentaries, (Brill, 2006); and edited John Calvin in Context, (Cambridge, 2019).