Critics and Skeptics in the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters

The literature on the history of biblical criticism is voluminous, but remarkably consistent in its postulation of the Reformation and the Enlightenment as the two mainsprings of modern biblical criticism. That this history is written almost exclusively by heirs of the liberal Protestant tradition o...

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Main Author: Lambe, Patrick J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1988
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1988, Volume: 81, Issue: 3, Pages: 271-296
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Summary:The literature on the history of biblical criticism is voluminous, but remarkably consistent in its postulation of the Reformation and the Enlightenment as the two mainsprings of modern biblical criticism. That this history is written almost exclusively by heirs of the liberal Protestant tradition ought to sound a warning bell, especially since the extremely rare dissenting accounts of biblical criticism come from the Roman Catholic camp.
ISSN:1475-4517
Contains:Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000010105