Pub Date : 2021-05-11DOI: 10.1177/10638512211003862
Geoffrey Butler
Though committed to the final authority of Scripture in all matters, John Calvin’s Institutes and biblical commentaries show him to be a remarkable student of patristics. His doctrine of the Lord’s Supper was no exception, as Calvin calls upon the likes of Augustine, Chrysostom, Tertullian and others to support his position. This article, therefore, contends that Calvin’s engagement with the Fathers – though imperfect – demonstrates that his view, in essence, may be clearly traced to the patristic period. It also suggests that his reverence for tradition, which he considered consistent with his commitment to sola scriptura, makes Calvin a prime example for contemporary evangelicals as they reflect on their own doctrine of the Supper. Not only would paying close attention to the Fathers enrich their own understanding, but given that such figures are esteemed by the wider church, it may well contribute to a more robust ecumenical conversation around the sacraments.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1177/1063851221993913
James B. Prothro
The doctrine of inspiration grounds Christian use and interpretation of Scripture, making this doctrine at once theoretical and practical. Many theoretical accounts, however, restrict the “inspired” status of biblical texts to a single text-form, which introduces problems for the practical use of Scripture in view of the texts’ historical multiformity. This article argues that such restrictions of inspiration are theologically problematic and unnecessary. Contextualizing inspiration within the divine revelatory economy, this article argues that the Spirit’s same goals and varied activities in the texts’ composition obtain also in their preservation, so that we can consider multiple forms of a text to be inspired while acknowledging that not all forms are inspired to equal ends in the history and life of the church. The article concludes with hermeneutical reflections affirming that we, today, can read the “word of the Lord” while also affirming the place of textual criticism in theological interpretation.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1177/1063851220981725
Paul Gondreau
Thomas Aquinas offers for his time a novel take on human sexual difference, in that he grounds human sexuality in what we might term a metaphysical biology and accords it a privileged role in the moral life. Though his biology is drawn from Aristotle, which leads Aquinas to make problematic statements on sexual difference, he nonetheless offers a perspective that remains deeply relevant and significant for today. His method or approach of tethering sexual difference first and foremost to our animal-like biological design remains perennial, particularly at a time when many seek to dismiss biology as irrelevant to sexual identity and gender difference. The latest findings of the emerging field of neurobiology, which have uncovered structural differences between the male and female brains, offer key support to Aquinas’s approach. Even more important, he holds, in an unprecedented move, that sexual design and inclination provide a veritable source of moral excellence. He goes so far as to locate the mean of virtue in our sexual design and appetites.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1177/1063851220969668
Charles G. Kim
Given that most scholars focus on St. Augustine’s larger treatises, this article explores how the African Bishop preached to an audience of fishermen and farmers in rural North Africa. This article emphasizes how St. Augustine demonstrated the Via Humilitatis found in Christ for his audience. It thus shows why St. Augustine’s preaching looked so different from that of the modern day in addition to uncovering his theology of a sacramental encounter with the Humble Word in preaching.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-08DOI: 10.1177/10638512211013493
Rolfe King
In the context of recent debate about whether “Reformed Catholics” and Protestants, more generally, should accept Augustine’s totus Christus Christological ecclesiology, I illustrate the notion of an asymmetric aligning union. This is a metaphysically real union, but not a substantial union. I suggest that Reformed catholic theology would be better served by deploying the notion of an asymmetric aligning union. It preserves the Reformation solas and is compatible with the notion of the mystical body of Christ, without the disadvantages of the totus Christus notion, if that is taken to involve a substantial union. This form of union should be of wider ecumenical interest.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-04DOI: 10.1177/1063851220973334
Zane E. Chu
A dialogue between Aquinas and Volf mediated by Lonergan illuminates the practical significance of Christ’s redemptive work. Aquinas contemplates the mystery of Christ’s passion as an act of satisfaction proceeding from charity that makes amends for wrongdoing. Lonergan specifies this satisfaction as a fitting expression of sorrow for the granting of forgiveness. He further identifies the essential meaning and practical significance of redemption as the transformation of evil into good, and calls it the law of the cross. Volf delineates the significance of the cross for practices of reconciliation, the movement from exclusion to embrace through repentance, forgiveness, and making space for the other. I suggest that Volf’s framework is undergirded by Lonergan’s law of the cross and assists retrieving the latent practical significance of Aquinas’ contemplation. Satisfaction for another is interpreted as forgiveness in the movement from exclusion to embrace proceeding from charity interpreted as the will to embrace.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/1063851220974260
N. Austriaco
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who has written two New York Times bestsellers, Sapiens and Homo Deus. They are, respectively, his telling of the sweeping saga of human history and of an imagined future for his transhumanist aspirations. In many ways, they constitute a compelling salvation history for the secular soul. A mix of historical analysis and philosophical musing, his grand narrative provides answers to the big questions of the human heart: Where do I come from? Why am I the way that I am? Where am I going? For what should I hope? For some of my secular friends, it is a worthy rival of the Gospel as a sure guide for self-realization and fulfillment in a post-Christian society. Written in vivid language with memorable turns of phrase, Sapiens is a chronicle that captures the genealogy of our civilization from the perspective of three historical movements: the Cognitive Revolution about 70,000 years ago, the Agricultural Revolution about 12,000 years ago, and the Scientific Revolution about 500 years ago. For Harari, each of these revolutions enabled our human ancestors to better create “imagined realities” like gods, nations, and corporations. These “myths”—others would call them social constructs— facilitated the cooperation among large numbers of strangers and the rapid innovation of social behavior that together gave rise to human civilization. 974260 PRE0010.1177/1063851220974260Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical TheologyBook Review book-review2020
尤瓦尔·诺亚·赫拉利是耶路撒冷希伯来大学的以色列历史学家，他写过两本《纽约时报》畅销书《智人》和《上帝》。它们分别是他对人类历史的宏大传奇的讲述，以及他对超人类主义抱负的想象未来。在许多方面，他们构成了一个引人注目的救赎历史的世俗灵魂。他的宏大叙事融合了历史分析和哲学思考，为人类心中的重大问题提供了答案:我从哪里来?为什么我是现在这个样子?我要去哪里?我还指望什么呢?对于我的一些世俗朋友来说，它是福音的有力对手，是后基督教社会中自我实现和实现的可靠指南。《智人》以生动的语言和令人难忘的措辞写成，是一部编年史，从三次历史运动的角度捕捉了我们文明的谱系:约7万年前的认知革命，约1.2万年前的农业革命，约500年前的科学革命。对赫拉利来说，每一次革命都使我们的人类祖先能够更好地创造“想象的现实”，比如神、国家和公司。这些“神话”——其他人称之为社会建构——促进了大量陌生人之间的合作和社会行为的快速创新，共同产生了人类文明。974260 PRE0010.1177/1063851220974260Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical theology .书评，书评，2020
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/1063851220969885
Matthew A. Rothaus Moser
“What will this Council be?” This is a question that Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) asked in anticipation of the opening of the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). It is a question that remains apropos today nearly 60 years after the Council as historians and theologians consider the legacy of Vatican II and what it means for the Roman Catholic Church today. With the publication of the two volumes of de Lubac’s Vatican Council Notebooks, Ignatius Press offers anglophone scholars a new window for looking backward to the Council’s unfolding, development, and contested conclusions, as a way of looking forward to the ongoing work of renewing, revising, extending, and translating the Council’s accomplishments into our own day. The Notebooks cover a period of 5 years, from de Lubac’s initial—and surprising—appointment to the Preparatory Theological Commission in the summer of 1960 to the closing Mass of the Council in December of 1965. These two volumes include versions of de Lubac’s six council notebooks that de Lubac himself redacted for publication. Despite these redactions, the Notebooks depict the Council in unprecedented detail through de Lubac’s near-daily chronicle of conciliar happenings. The Notebooks are aimed at a narrow scholarly audience and the intellectual cost of admission is high. These are not aimed at a general readership, even a general scholarly readership. But scholars of Vatican II, 20th-century Catholicism, and de Lubac’s theology will find in these volumes a treasure 969885 PRE0010.1177/1063851220969885Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical TheologyBook Review book-review2020
“这个委员会将会是什么样子?”这是Henri de Lubac(1896-1991)在第二次梵蒂冈大公会议(1962-1965)开幕前提出的问题。在大公会议召开近60年后的今天，当历史学家和神学家考虑梵蒂冈第二次会议的遗产以及它对今天的罗马天主教会的意义时，这个问题仍然是恰当的。随着两卷de Lubac的梵蒂冈会议笔记的出版，伊格内修斯出版社为英语学者提供了一个新的窗口，回顾会议的展开、发展和有争议的结论，作为一种期待正在进行的工作的方式，更新、修改、扩展和翻译会议的成就到我们自己的一天。《笔记》涵盖了5年的时间，从1960年夏天德·鲁巴克最初出人意料地被任命为预备神学委员会的成员，到1965年12月大公会议的闭幕弥撒。这两卷包括了卢巴克自己编辑出版的六本会议笔记。尽管有这些修订，但《笔记本》通过德·卢卡克几乎每天都在记录会议事件的编年史，以前所未有的细节描绘了会议。《札记》的目标受众是少数学者，入学的智力成本很高。这些书不是针对一般读者的，甚至不是针对一般学术读者的。但是研究梵蒂冈二世、20世纪天主教和德·鲁巴克神学的学者们会在这些书中发现一个宝藏:天主教和福音派神学杂志
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Pub Date : 2021-01-04DOI: 10.1177/1063851220969899
Justus H. Hunter
William Abraham’s four-volume Divine Agency and Divine Action promises to be the most significant advance in evangelical Methodist theology since Thomas C. Oden’s Classic Christianity. This is the third of the soon-to-becompleted four-volume set from Oxford University Press. The first volume gives a philosophical analysis of the concept of divine action. Abraham’s central thesis there is that the concept of action is open. That is, no fixed set of necessary and sufficient conditions can be supplied for those phenomena denominated “action.” Thus, the path to analysis of any given action will be particular; it must develop from the particular phenomenon itself, rather than by application of some general definition of action to any particular case. If this is true for creaturely actions, so it will be for any instance of divine action. The path to understanding action, divine or creaturely, lies in particularist attention to individual cases. And, Abraham argues, the theologian ought to be relieved by this insight. More than that, theologians should be invigorated. Since action is an open concept, we set out in pursuit of detailed reflection upon particular divine actions. And this is exactly what Christian theologians have, in their finest and most valuable moments, always done: attentively developed particular analyses of particular acts. The second volume of Divine Agency and Divine Action narrates key moments in the history of Christian theology as just such a venture. Abraham shows how theologians across the Christian past have approached particular instances of divine action in a particularist manner. This third volume begins to sketch a systematic theology across key dogmatic loci in light of Abraham’s fundamental commitments on divine action. The theology of Volume III is certainly a beginning. Many chapters are mere sketches and suggestions. This is a strength of the book, as Abraham has the unique ability to draw his readers along so many explorations of so many topics and themes in theology. And it is, at times, a weakness. 969899 PRE0010.1177/1063851220969899Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical TheologyBook Review book-review2020
威廉·亚伯拉罕的四卷本《神圣代理与神圣行动》有望成为自托马斯·c·奥登的《经典基督教》以来，福音派卫理公会神学最重要的进步。这是牛津大学出版社即将完成的四卷本的第三部。第一卷给出了神圣行动概念的哲学分析。亚伯拉罕的中心论点是行动的概念是开放的。也就是说，不能为那些被称为“行动”的现象提供一套固定的充分必要条件。因此，任何给定行动的分析路径都是特定的;它必须从特定现象本身发展而来，而不是将某种一般的行动定义应用于任何特定情况。如果这对于受造物的行为是正确的，那么对于任何神圣的行为也是如此。理解行为的途径，无论是神圣的还是受造物的，都在于对个案的特别关注。亚伯拉罕认为，神学家应该对这种见解感到宽慰。不仅如此，神学家们还应该振作起来。既然行动是一个开放的概念，我们开始追求对特定神圣行动的详细反思。而这正是基督教神学家，在他们最优秀最有价值的时刻所做的:专注地对特定行为进行特定分析。《神的代理和神的行动》第二卷叙述了基督教神学历史上的关键时刻，就像这样一个冒险。亚伯拉罕展示了过去基督教的神学家是如何以一种特殊的方式来处理神的行为的特定实例的。这第三卷开始勾勒出一个系统的神学跨越关键的教条轨迹，在亚伯拉罕的基本承诺，神圣的行动的光。第三卷的神学当然是一个开始。许多章节仅仅是提纲和建议。这是这本书的一个优势，因为亚伯拉罕有独特的能力吸引他的读者在神学的许多话题和主题上进行许多探索。有时，这是一种弱点。969899 PRE0010.1177/1063851220969899Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical theology, book Review, book- Review, 2020
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Pub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.1177/1063851220967333
Keith Starkenburg
Many churches and scholars affirm that God renews the cosmos at the eschaton. Some scholars have begun to say the cosmos is resurrected in Christ, without much warrant for that discourse. With a focus on N.T. Wright and Richard Middleton, this article shows why some scholars have begun to say that the creation is resurrected in Christ, along with the relative paucity of an argument for this claim. The article begins to fulfill this need by making a theological argument from biblical sources, utilizing an interpretive approach outlined by David Yeago. It suggests that, for some scholars, the idea that the creation is not destroyed at the eschaton may motivate resistance to the claim that creation is resurrected.
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