Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.1177/10638512221084051
David S. Yeago
Luther's striking 1535 interpretation of Galatians 3:13 is not a theological effusion hung loosely on the text but a careful exegetical exercise in “Scripture interpreting Scripture” in which each key move is authorized by the pressure of other texts within the canon. For Luther, therefore, the “literal sense” of Galatians is not accessible apart from its entanglement in a canonical interpretive network. Further, the reality of which the text speaks is discovered only by entering into this complex intra-canonical web of hermeneutical interactions. Scripture's words therefore relate to theological reality not by extrinsic reference but quasi-sacramentally, following the pattern of Luther's theology of the means of grace.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1177/10638512221083879
Chad D. Lakies
Confession is a central practice in the life of the church. In this paper, I engage two thinkers on the nature and power of confession: Michel Foucault and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Foucault considers confession to be a means of control and domination, a technology which ultimately dehumanizes, depoliticizes, and perhaps even erases the self. Bonhoeffer considers confession to be truly liberating. However, the liberation he describes is a form of self-transcendence wherein a new creation emerges—a new self embodied by an “other-in-me.” Foucault offers an important critical perspective on the power of confession in our time but does not fully account for its enduring role in human life. I turn to Bonhoeffer whose work innovatively answers Foucault's objections. Even more, Bonhoeffer accounts for the critical role confession plays in human life. His construal ought to help us better understand why we want to confess and are seemingly compelled to do so.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.1177/10638512221084242
C. Holmes
The Christian doctrine of providence involves God, but in what way? In this article, I engage in a broad comparative and reflective exercise on the theological function of providence, drawing primarily upon the insights of Karl Barth and Thomas Aquinas and, to a lesser extent, those of John Webster. I show their broad agreement with respect to the nature of divine causality as well as the metaphysics of creatureliness, advancing a truly theocentric account of this key Christian doctrine.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1177/10638512221084579
Ephraim Radner
Theological interpretation of Scripture has often been understood in terms of method. This essay, drawing on Christian, Jewish, and Islamic reflection, as well as the anarchic metaphysics of Paul Feyerabend, argues that the category of “method” or “methodology” does not apply to theological interpretation, which ought instead to be understood as a human posture of receiving divine speech. This receptive posture is shaped especially by the infinitely complex character of divine speech that the Scripture constitutes, and it is just this character that subverts “method” itself as an adequate conceptuality for defining how one hears and understands God's Word.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1177/10638512221084066
R. K. Soulen
While the New Testament records that all three persons of the Trinity become perceptible to the human senses in the “fulness of time,” doctrines of the Trinity frequently follow Augustine's example in On the Trinity by focusing only on the visible appearances of the Son and Holy Spirit while leaving the trinitarian significance of the Father's voice unexamined. This essay seeks to make good this paterological deficit by asking, “What does the Father's voice reveal about the Father's unique hypostatic identity and the purpose for the sake of which the Father sent the Son and Spirit in the fullness of time?” It answers the question by means of the theological interpretation of scripture focusing on the place of John 12:28 in the Gospel of John.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1177/10638512221083878
Han-luen Kantzer Komline
This paper brings the thought of John Calvin into dialogue with Erich Przywara's Analogia Entis in order to reboot the Reformed-Catholic dialogue on the analogy of being, which Karl Barth has tended to dominate. The paper begins by distilling from Analogia Entis, and explicating, nine key principles that express Przywara's understanding of the analogy of being (Part I). It then turns to the relationship between God and creation expressed in Calvin's Institutes 1.1–5, demonstrating that in these crucial opening chapters Calvin explicitly affirms his own version of each of these nine principles save one, which he explicitly endorses elsewhere in the Institutes (Part II). Based on this analysis, the paper proposes that the relationship between Calvin and Przywara ought best to be viewed as one of dissimilarity amid greater similarity and that Calvin be retrieved as a fruitful resource for Reformed-Catholic détente on the issue of ontology.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/10638512221077373
Richard J. Walker
The twentieth-century turn to virtue ethics continues to set the agenda for much contemporary moral theology. Even traditions not usually associated with a focus on the virtues are being reread or rejigged in alignment with an understanding of moral agency revolving around habit, virtue, and formation. Gifford Grobien’s Christian Character Formation: Lutheran Studies of the Law, Anthropology, Worship, and Virtue, the latest contribution to the Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics (newly edited by Nigel Biggar), is one of several recent attempts to provide a Lutheran approach to virtue formation. Grobien insists that his is not “a work of Lutheran moral theology, nor an apology for it. It is, rather, a Lutheran contribution to the discourse on ethical formation” (xii). Nonetheless, what this amounts to in practice is a study grounded in Lutheran texts, questions, and concepts, with an eye toward ecumenical convergences and ready to receive insights from Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and other Protestant traditions. Whether or not this approach is judged to be restricting all depends on the degree to which Lutheran concerns can be understood to represent genuinely Christian concerns. Grobien suggests that the Lutheran “preoccupation” with the distinction between law and gospel, even if not shared by other traditions, can at least prove fruitful for non-Lutherans who “recognize that tensions raised by the ‘law-gospel question’ are not simply to be ignored or avoided” (9). The central question Grobien poses is how one speaks of “ethical formation within a theological framework ordered around the principle of justification by grace alone through faith alone” (1). A significant line of criticism has maintained that these two elements are incompatible, especially when justification is interpreted along Lutheran lines (as opposed to Reformed). Grobien’s aim is not simply to demonstrate their compatibility, which in this context would be a Lutheran apologetic, but instead to draw out the promise and power of Book Review
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/10638512221076367
S. Hauerwas
Even the mundane labors of a theology editor, such as the remarkably unenvious Joseph Mangina, can show us the importance of charity in the life of the church. Envy, a great enemy of charity, is described by Thomas Aquinas as “sorrow for another's good.” Hence in the New Testament, envy is more than just one item on a vice list. It is a vice that is destructive of community, and it is particularly destructive of the kind of love that makes the church possible. The envious cannot rejoice in the spiritual gifts of others as goods that build up the whole community. John Rawls tried to construct a concept of justice that was not dependent on egalitarian understandings of justice fueled by envy. What Rawls lacks, however, is an account of the common good that shows why envy is destructive not only of community but also of our ability to live lives of virtue.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/10638512221079483
P. Cary
Jesus famously promises in Mark 11:20–25 that prayer can move mountains and cast them into the sea. In the Scriptures, mountains threatened by the sea are an image of kingdoms threatened by war, tumult, and destruction. In its immediate context, Jesus’ words look very much like a warning about the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple. In a larger historical context, Friedrich Nietzsche, of all people, gives us a clue to what mountain could be in view when he complains that in Christ, the Jews have conquered Rome.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/10638512221079439
P. Cary
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