Balthasar Hubmaier and the Clarity of Scripture Graeme R. Chatfield

During the sixteenth century, many Reformers echoed Erasmus"s claim that the message of the Scriptures was clear, could be understood by even the lowliest servant, and should be translated into the vernacular and placed in the hands of all people. People did not require the magisterium of the Church to correctly interpret the meaning of the Scriptures. However, within a few short years, the leaders of the Magisterial Reformers, Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli, had created their own Protestant versions of the magisterium. This work traces how the doctrine of the clarity of Scripture found expression in the writings of Balthasar Hubmaier, admirer of Erasmus and Luther, and associate of Zwingli. As Hubmaier engaged in theological debate with opponents, one-time friends, and other Anabaptists, he sought to clarify his understanding of this critical reformation doctrine. Chronologically tracing the development of Hubmaier"s hermeneutic as he interacted with Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli, and Hans Denck provides a useful means of more accurately understanding his place in the matrix of the sixteenth-century Reformations. Graeme R. Chatfield is Associate Dean of the Australian College of Theology, Sydney. He taught Church History at Morling College from 1996-2007, and since 2008 has taught intensive courses in Church History and Historical Theology with TCMII in Vienna, Austria. "The interpretation of Scripture was a major issue in the sixteenth-century Reformations, separating Roman Catholic scholars, the magisterial reformers, and the radicals. A key theologian in this debate was Balthasar Hubmaier, whose contribution, and those of his friends and opponents, is skillfully and helpfully set out in a detailed study that chronologically follows the development and progression of his thought on this central doctrine for all Christian traditions and eras. Chateld"s research is a valuable and welcome addition to scholarship." Anthony R. Cross,Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford University. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Balthasar Hubmaier and the Clarity of Scripture (Graeme R. Chatfield)