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Download Journal UNION WITH CHRIST Valuing the Text Vol. 2, No. 1 / April 2016 April 1 / No. 2, Vol. for All Its Worth Westminster International Theological Reformed Seminary Evangelical Philadelphia Seminary uniocc.com Vol. 2, No. 1 / April 2016 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFORMED THEOLOGY AND LIFE Editorial Board Members Africa Flip Buys, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Henk Stoker, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Philip Tachin, National Open University of Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria Cephas Tushima, ECWA Theological Seminary, Jos, Nigeria Asia In-Sub Ahn, Chong Shin University and Seminary, Seoul, Korea UNION WITH CHRIST Wilson W. Chow, China Graduate School of Theology, Hong Kong Matthew Ebenezer, Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Dehra Dun, India Editorial Committee and Staff Benyamin F. Intan, International Reformed Evangelical Seminary, Jakarta, Indonesia Editor in Chief: Paul Wells Kevin Woongsan Kang, Chongshin Theological Seminary, Seoul, Korea Senior Editors: Peter A. Lillback and Benyamin F. Intan In Whan Kim, Daeshin University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, Korea Associate Editor: Jeffrey K. Jue Billy Kristanto, International Reformed Evangelical Seminary, Jakarta, Indonesia Managing Editor: Bernard Aubert Jong Yun Lee, Academia Christiana of Korea, Seoul, Korea Book Review Editor: Brandon D. Crowe Sang Gyoo Lee, Kosin University, Busan, Korea Subscription Managers: Audy Santoso and Andrew Colpitts Deok Kyo Oh, Ulaanbaatar University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Assistant: Abbie Daise Moses Wong, China Reformed Theological Seminary, Taipei, Taiwan Copy Editor: Henry Whitney Typesetter: Janice Van Eck Australia Allan M. Harman, Presbyterian Theological College, Victoria, Australia Mission Statement Peter Hastie, Presbyterian Theological College, Victoria, Australia Mark D. Thompson, Moore Theological College, Newtown, Australia Unio cum Christo celebrates and encourages the visible union believers possess in Christ when they confess the faith of the one holy catholic and apostolic Europe church, the body of Christ. Thus, its mission is (1) to be an international scholarly Henri Blocher, Faculté Libre de Théologie Évangélique, Vaux-sur-Seine, France and practical journal for the global Reformed community—churches, Leonardo De Chirico, Istituto di Formazione Evangelica e Documentazione, seminaries, theologians, and pastors; (2) to encourage deeper fellowship, Padova, Italy understanding, and growth in faith, hope, and love in the Reformed community David Estrada, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain at large; and (3) to support small and isolated Reformed witnesses in minority Ian Hamilton, Cambridge Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, UK missional situations. It will seek to do so by the publication and dissemination Roel Kuiper, Kampen Theological University, Kampen, Netherlands of scholarly contributions of a biblical, theological, and practical nature by José de Segovia, Iglesia Reformada de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Reformed leaders world-wide—including leading theologians, developing Herman J. Selderhuis, Apeldoorn Theological University, Apeldoorn, Netherlands scholars, practicing missionaries, pastors, and evangelists. Henk van den Belt, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands Paul Wells, Faculté Jean Calvin, Aix-en-Provence, France Articles, interviews, and book reviews will consistently be in line with biblically North America based Reformed confessional orthodoxy and orthopraxis. Submitted or Greg Beale, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, USA solicited contributions for its biannual issues will focus on specific themes Joel R. Beeke, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, USA of importance to the Reformed tradition and present debate. Gerald L. Bray, Samford University, Birmingham, USA William Edgar, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, USA The opinions expressed in this journal represent the views only of the Richard B. Gaffin Jr.,Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, USA individual contributors; they do not reflect the views of the editors, Peter A. Lillback, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, USA of Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, or the International David (Eung-Yul) Ryoo, Centreville, USA, formerly of Chongshin Seminary, Reformed Evangelical Seminary, Jakarta. Seoul, Korea Carl R. Trueman, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, USA ISSN 2380-5412 (print) Jason Van Vliet, Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary, Hamilton, Canada ISSN 2473-8476 (online) Jason Hing Kau Yeung, Ambrose University, Calgary, Canada Copyright © 2016 International Reformed Evangelical Seminary and Westminster Jason Zuidema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada Theological Seminary. All rights reserved. Unio cum Christo® is a registered trademark of Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. South America Davi Gomes, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil Printed in the United States of America and Indonesia Mauro Meister, Andrew Jumper Graduate Center, São Paulo, Brazil INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFORMED THEOLOGY AND LIFE UNION WITH CHRIST Vol. 2, No. 1 / April 2016 Valuing the Text For All Its Worth Published jointly by Westminster International Theological Reformed Seminary Evangelical Philadelphia, Seminary Pennsylvania, Jakarta, uniocc.com USA Indonesia [email protected] Submissions For questions regarding submission of articles, contact Paul Wells at [email protected] or Bernard Aubert at [email protected]. Guidelines of style can be found at our website: uniocc.com. Subscriptions Annual subscription rates are $35.00 for institutions, $25.00 for individ- uals, and $20.00 for students. Single issues may be purchased at $14.00 per copy. Inquiries concerning subscription and orders should be sent to [email protected]. ISSN 2380-5412 (print) ISSN 2473-8476 (online) Copyright © 2016 International Reformed Evangelical Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary. All rights reserved. Unio cum Christo® is a registered trademark of Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. Printed in the United States of America and Indonesia CONTENTS Valuing the Text For All Its Worth 5 Editorial: Text and Textuality / PAUL WELLS BIBLICAL STUDIES 11 Meredith G. Kline on Covenant Community and Canon / MEREDITH M. KLINE 27 The Pauline Canon and Gnosticism / PETER JONES 39 The New Perspective on Abraham? / GERHARD H. VISSCHER 51 Scripture, Mishnah, and Confessions / PAUL R. GILCHRIST HISTORICAL STUDIES 69 The Impact and Influence of Erasmus’s Greek New Testament / PETER J. GOEMAN 83 The Ximenez Polyglot / FRANCES LUTTIKHUIZEN 99 Humanism and the Bible: The Contribution of Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples / STÉPHANE SIMONNIN 117 Historicus Practicus: Calvin’s Use of Josephus in the Commentaries and Lectures / WILLIAM DEN HOLLANDER 135 Calvin and Later Reformed Theologians on the Image of God / SEUNG-GOO LEE 149 The Enlightenment Bible in Antebellum America (1812–1831): Archibald Alexander’s Appraisal / ANNETTE G. AUBERT 3 4 UNIO CUM CHRISTO ›› UNIOCC.COM CHURCH LIFE 169 The Sermon and the Greek New Testament / R. KENT HUGHES 187 Practical Principles for Church Leaders and Church Members from Hebrews 13 / ALBERT J. COETSEE INTERVIEW 201 Interview with Dr. Richard B. Gaffin Jr. PETER/ A. LILLBACK BOOK REVIEWS 213 Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes, eds. The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis / BRANDON D. CROWE 215 C. Clifton Black. Reading Scripture with the Saints / BERNARD AUBERT 220 John W. de Gruchy. John Calvin: Christian Humanist and Evangelical Reformer / JASON ZUIDEMA 222 Bruce Gordon. Calvin / WILLIAM EDGAR 227 David Puckett. John Calvin’s Exegesis of the Old Testament / DUSTYN EUDALY 231 David R. Law. The Historical-Critical Method: A Guide for the Perplexed / PAUL WELLS 235 Timothy Keller. Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism / JOEL R. BEEKE 239 Contributors EDITORIAL Text and Textuality PAUL WELLS he first issue of Unio cum Christo in this pre-Reformation cele- bration year of 2016 presents the captivating issue of the text of the New Testament. It reminds us of the debt of gratitude we owe for the diligent and painstaking efforts of those who labored to recover the best possible text of Scripture from the distant Tpast after nearly a thousand years dominated by Jerome’s Vulgate, which had virtually become the Christian Bible. So familiar is our Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, or the Bible translated into our native tongue, that we easily forget the magnitude of the achievement. The focus of this issue is primarily on some of the humanists from the time of the Renaissance in Europe whose work contributed to the subsequent translation of Scripture into the vernacular: Erasmus, Lefèvre d’Étaples, Ximenez, Beza, and many others should not be forgotten, nor should the translators who benefited from their work, including Tyndale, Luther, Olivétan, and Coverdale. Their passion for Scripture fueled the fire that blazed abroad in the sixteenth century, post tenebras lux, bringing with it the precious knowledge of Christ as Lord and Savior. The Scriptures, the formal principle of Christian faith, bind us to Christ as the Word of God; by and through Scripture alone we benefit for salvation from union with Christ (unio cum Christo!), via the material principle of justification by faith in Christ alone. These three foundational principles stood alongside two others in the magisterial Reformers’ teaching: grace as the whole of God’s work and the glory of God as
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