RT Article
T1 The Sensus Literalis and the Trinity in the English Enlightenment
JF Pro ecclesia
VO 29
IS 3
SP 293
OP 307
A1 Ney, David
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1703434781
AB The doctrine of the Trinity was fiercely contested in the English Enlightenment. This debate is of interest not simply because of the doctrinal articulations of the belligerents or their various approaches to the Scriptural text, but because it led to the consolidation of a precise understanding of the relationship between the sensus literalis and doctrine for Trinitarians and Antitrinitarians both. Antitrinitarians of the English Enlightenment came to agree that the sensus literalis could be isolated by identifying the singular referent of each Scriptural word, but Trinitarians came to insist, to the contrary, that Scriptural words always refer within a larger canonical framework.
K1 Daniel Waterland
K1 English Enlightenment
K1 Keywords Antitrinitarian
K1 Samuel Clarke
K1 Trinitarian
K1 William Jones of Nayland
K1 doctrine of the Trinity
K1 Hermeneutics
K1 History of Biblical Interpretation
K1 sensus literalis
DO 10.1177/1063851220910502