Bucer Among the Biblical Humanists: The Context for his Practice in the Teaching of Theology in Strasbourg, 1523-1548

Without denying Bucer's initial training in a scholastic context, it is arguable that the biblical humanist milieu was the more important for his development as a theologian as well as an exegete. Bucer was a full participant in that group of Rhenish reformers that has been termed ‘l'ecole rhenane d'exegese', as is evidenced by his prescriptions for the practice of theology found in the various ordinances for theological education in which he had a hand in drafting, as well as in his own practice of ‘doing’ theology. For Bucer, as for all biblical humanists (preeminently Erasmus), the true theologian is the biblical exegete.