Lau Chin Kwee

John Calvin and Thomas Aquinas Thus it is that while Aquinas maintains that Scripture does have more than one meaning, he does not hold that each passage necessarily has four levels of meaning. Additionally, the meaning may never be divorced from the very words of Scripture. The conclusion of this matter, so significant for exegesis, is that both Calvin and Aquinas seek the literal meaning of the text. Yet, they arrive at this point by radically different paths, and Aquinas also maintains that...