The Servetus Challenge

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" The Servetus Challenge "
Joao Chaves

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1073211
Doc. No	:	LA116840
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697312-01003001‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Joao Chaves
Title & Author	:	The Servetus Challenge [Article]\ Joao Chaves
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Reformed Theology
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	10/3
Page No	:	195–214
Abstract	:	This piece focuses on how the challenge that Servetus’s Trinitarian thought posed to reformers in general and Calvin in particular illustrates the oftentimes overlooked similarities between their interpretative frameworks. Although many works on the Servetus-Calvin affair have been produced, such works focus on the dissimilarities between Servetus and Calvin. I will argue that there is a significant similarity between Servetus’s and Calvin’s hermeneutical presuppositions insofar as both thinkers not only do not acknowledge the tentative nature of their scriptural interpretations but also allow their respective hermeneutic to be guided by sources that were produced by people who belonged to a time when, according to their respective convictions, the church was still able to properly recognize true scriptural teaching. This piece focuses on how the challenge that Servetus’s Trinitarian thought posed to reformers in general and Calvin in particular illustrates the oftentimes overlooked similarities between their interpretative frameworks. Although many works on the Servetus-Calvin affair have been produced, such works focus on the dissimilarities between Servetus and Calvin. I will argue that there is a significant similarity between Servetus’s and Calvin’s hermeneutical presuppositions insofar as both thinkers not only do not acknowledge the tentative nature of their scriptural interpretations but also allow their respective hermeneutic to be guided by sources that were produced by people who belonged to a time when, according to their respective convictions, the church was still able to properly recognize true scriptural teaching.
Descriptor	:	bible
Descriptor	:	Calvin
Descriptor	:	hermeneutics
Descriptor	:	Reformation
Descriptor	:	Servetus
Descriptor	:	Trinity
Descriptor	:	unitarianism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697312-01003001‬