Intertext as Countertext in Luther's Romans Lectures. Issue 1 (April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Waller, Giles
• Is Part Of: CounterText. Volume 7:Issue 1(2021:Apr.)
• Page Start: 106
• Page End: 114
• Publication Date: 2021-04
• Subjects: Luther -- scripture -- grace -- sin -- hermeneutics -- interruption -- deconstruction; English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Culture -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; 820.9
• DOI: 10.3366/count.2021.0218
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2056-4406

Abstract

Abstract : In his article in this issue of CounterText, Brian Cummings develops an account of Luther as a counter-textual reader, in which 'iconoclastic philology' reconfigures the relation between divine and human agency, between grace and works. In response, I offer a fresh reading of the opening pages of Luther's seminal (and once long lost) Lectures on Romans, exploring the ways in which for Luther scriptural intertexts become counter-texts, at once interrupting and illuminating one another and Luther's own interpretations of them. I show that this mode of 'iconoclastic philology' unites Luther's method of reading and his theological account of grace, with each structured on a pattern of interruption.