Languages Fueling Fire

The changing patterns of hermeneutics characteristic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the concentration on the Hebrew and Greek texts, and the emphasis on a single meaning, springing from study of the grammar and syntax of the original languages, fueled the fires of the Reformation

 

Richard A. Muller, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 2: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003), 469.