Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Church history and the Bible / Karlfried Froehlich --

The text of Mark in the hands of the orthodox / Bart D. Ehrman --

The use of stoic cosmogony in Theophilus of Antioch's Hexaemeron / Kathleen E. McVey --

The exegesis of history in John Chrysostom's Homilies on Acts / Amanda Berry Wylie --

Vile bodies : Paul and Augustine on the resurrection of the flesh / Paula Fredriksen --

The rhetoric of God in the figurative exegesis of Augustine / Robert W. Bernard --

The myth of the Augustinian synthesis / David W. Johnson --

Meister Eckhart and a millennium with Mary and Martha / Blake R. Heffner --

The fusion of papal ideology and biblical exegesis in the fourteenth century / Christopher Ocker --

Jean Gerson on the "traditional sense" of Scripture as an argument for an ecclesial hermeneutic / Mark S. Burrows --

Christopher Columbus as a scriptural exegete / John V. Fleming --

Luther's humor as a tool for interpreting Scripture / Eric W. Gritsch --

Calvin among the Thomists / David C. Steinmetz --

Some reflections on relating Calvin's exegesis and theology / Elsie Anne McKee --

Marie Dentie`re's use of Scripture in her theology of history / Jane Dempsey Douglass --

Bullinger's prophets of the "Restitutio" / Rodney L. Petersen --

Teaching history through preaching : some patterns of historical interpretation in the sermons of the Lutheran pastor Heinrich Fro�hlich (1826-1881) / Klaus Fro�hlich --

Prophecy, millennialism, and biblical interpretation in nineteenth-century America / James H. Moorhead --

The fourth gospel as trinitarian source then and now / Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. --

Historical criticism and dogmatic interest in Karl Barth's theological exegesis of the New Testament / Bruce McCormack --

Postscript / Karlfried Froehlich.