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The Life and Writings of Marie Dentière The Life and Writings of Marie Dentière
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Biblical Interpretation in the Very Useful Epistle (1539) Biblical Interpretation in the Very Useful Epistle (1539)
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Applying Sacred History to Contemporary Events Applying Sacred History to Contemporary Events
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Enacting Biblical Prophetic Patterns Enacting Biblical Prophetic Patterns
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Employing Letter vs. Spirit to Distinguish True from False Worship Employing Letter vs. Spirit to Distinguish True from False Worship
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Performing Gender and Rhetoric through Adherence to God’s Word Alone Performing Gender and Rhetoric through Adherence to God’s Word Alone
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Biblical Interpretation in La guerre et déslivrance de la ville de Genesve Biblical Interpretation in La guerre et déslivrance de la ville de Genesve
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Marie Dentière’s Reception and Legacy Marie Dentière’s Reception and Legacy
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Further Reading Further Reading
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Works Cited Works Cited
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34 Marie Dentière (c.1495–1561)
Get accessG. Sujin Pak (PhD, Duke University) is Dean at Boston University’s School of Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity. Her teaching and research focus on early modern intellectual religious history, women and the Protestant Reformations, the history of Christian–Jewish relations, and the history of biblical interpretation. Pak is the author of The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates on the Messianic Psalms (2010) and The Reformation of Prophecy: Early Modern Interpretations of the Prophet and Old Testament Prophet (2018).
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Published:19 November 2024
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Abstract
Marie Dentière was converted to the Protestant faith in the early to mid-1520s. This chapter explores her life and the historical circumstances to which her writings responded, with a particular focus on Marie’s uses of Scripture in her Very Useful Epistle (1539). This text illuminates not only her scriptural themes and exegetical strategies. Dentière aimed to apply biblical histories and scriptural signs to interpret the events of her time, rebuke worship practices that she deemed contrary to God’s Word, and expound a vision for Protestant unity for which she argued that women had a distinct and crucial role to play. She also offered more than just a defense of women reading Scripture; she provided one of the first examples of an early modern Reformed woman’s extensive engagement with Scripture around themes of right worship and a vision for Protestant unity rooted in God’s Word alone.
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