Ferguson, Duncan S.2019-09-252019-09-252017-01-311982http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/162835"Protestant orthodoxy is a direct descendant of the Reformation. More than Luther or Zwingli, its patron saint is John Calvin. It was Calvin's theological sys- tem with its extremely high view of Scripture as the depository of the apostolic tradition that formed the cornerstone of orthodoxy's understanding of the faith. Second to Luther in his depth perception of the Bible, Calvin was superior in his systematization of its teachings. In Calvin, theories regarding the inspiration of the Biblical documents began to appear that became characteristic of the Protes- tant scholastics of the seventeenth century. These seventeenth-century divines found in Calvin a source book for their doctrine of verbal inspiration. His legal mind needed a codebook, a document, a systematic statement of God's revelation to humankind, and he found it in Scripture"engWith permission of the license/copyright holderBibleProtestantismorthodoxyhermeneuticsChristian denominationsGlobal Church History and World Christianity18/19th centuryDogmaticsPractical theology and theological educationArticle