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For the Reformers, Galatians and Ephesians were living, capsule versions of Paul's grand epistle to the Romans. The commentary in this volume spans Latin, German, French, Dutch and English authors from a variety of streams within the Protestant movement, speaking with eloquence and intellectual acumen to the church today.
About the author
Volume EditorGerald L. Bray (Ph.D., University of Paris--Sorbonne) is director of research for the Latimer Trust, based in London, and a research professor at Samford University, teaching in the Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. A priest of the Church of England, Bray has also edited the post-Reformation Anglican canons. He has edited several volumes of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and Ancient Christian Texts, as well as volume one of the Ancient Christian Doctrine series, all for IVP Academic.
General EditorTimothy George (Th.D., Harvard University) is a renowned Reformation historian and author of
Theology of the Reformers, as well as many other theological and historical works. He is founding dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University and an executive editor of
Christianity Today.Associate General EditorScott M. Manetsch (Ph.D., University of Arizona) is associate professor of church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and author of
Theodore Beza and the Quest for Peace in France, 1572-1598.
Summary
In this first volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture, you will encounter the reformers? fervor for the gospel of justification by faith as they retrieve it from these two letters of Paul. Spanning Latin, German, French, Dutch and English authors from a variety of streams within the Protestant movement, this commentary speaks with singular passion to a diverse contemporary church.
