Prelapsarian Christological Mediation and the Typology of Adam and Eve in Jerome Zanchi’s De Operibus Dei

This article examines the typological patterns that distinguish Jerome Zanchi’s exposition of human creation in his De Operibus Dei intra spatium sex dierum creatis (1591). It argues that Zanchi’s distinctive application of the principle that Christ is the “scope” and “substance” of scripture to the...

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Published in:Journal of reformed theology
Main Author: Leslie, Andrew M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Journal of reformed theology
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HC New Testament
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KDD Protestant Church
NBE Anthropology
NBF Christology
Further subjects:B Christology
B prelapsarian typology
B Adam and Eve
B “image of God”
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Summary:This article examines the typological patterns that distinguish Jerome Zanchi’s exposition of human creation in his De Operibus Dei intra spatium sex dierum creatis (1591). It argues that Zanchi’s distinctive application of the principle that Christ is the “scope” and “substance” of scripture to the exegesis of the relevant texts in Genesis 1–2 is tied to a conviction that Christ’s mediatorial headship over the church embraces a continuity of operations between the prelapsarian and postlapsarian states. Because of this he believes that the prelapsarian type, or figurative sign, can participate in the antitype, or the spiritual reality the type signifies, without eliding the critical distinction between them, as illustrated in his articulation of the “image of God.”
ISSN:1569-7312
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of reformed theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10053