Judaizing Calvin

By exploring how Martin Luther Martin Bucer and John Calvin interpreted a set of eight messianic psalms (Psalms 2 8 16 22 45 72 110 188) Sujin Pak elucidates key debates about Christological exegesis during the era of the Protestant reformation. More particularly Pak examines the exegeses of Luther Bucer and Calvin in order to (a) reveal their particular theological emphases and reading strategies (b) identify their debates over the use of Jewish exegesis and the factors leading to charges of ''judaizing'' leveled against Calvin and (c) demonstrate how Psalms reading and the accusation of judaizing serve distinctive purposes of confessional identity formation. In this way she portrays the beginnings of those distinctive trends that separated Lutheran and Reformed exegetical principles.