Reformation Approach

History of Interpretation of Psalms
Patristic and Mediaeval Approach ← Reformation Approach → Literary Analytical Approach

Method

Christological

Grammatico-historical

Rejected fourfold sense of scholastics

Luther: “The literal sense of Scripture alone is the whole essence of faith and of Christian theology.” He calls allegorism “dirt,” “scum,” “obsolete loose rags,” and likens it to a harlot and to a monkey-game.

Calvin: “It is the first business of an interpreter to let his author say what he does say, instead of attributing to him what we think he ought to say.”