Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09402005
C. Barrigar
Christian philosopher Timothy Hsiao has recently provided in this journal a defence of gun ownership and public gun carrying. I will respond with an argument against gun ownership for self-defence. In particular I will argue that Hsiao’s argument misuses Scripture, fails to employ a range of important theological categories, and leads to increased harms. I argue these failings occur because Hsiao’s fundamental objective is not to seek a Kingdom of God theology of guns but rather to defend a libertarian social vision. In effect, his thin theology is really a veneer for a libertarian defence of guns and gun culture, whereas I argue that a Kingdom of God theology seeks to provide a safer society and thus would move society away from gun culture.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09402007
Steve Hayhow
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09402002
Jim Reiher
The problem of how Paul’s visits to Jerusalem noted in Galatians, line up with Luke’s record in Acts, is well known and the debate over this has been going on for a very long time. After exploring a range of papers on this issue that span a century and a half, this paper briefly introduces the reader to Willis J. Beecher, and summarises his thesis. Beecher proposed that the Galatians 1 visit, is the first visit the converted Paul made to Jerusalem, but it is not recorded in the book of Acts. The Galatians 2 visit is then seen to be the visit Luke records in Acts 9. This unique and creative approach to the two documents demands a rethink of the chronology from Paul’s conversion to the first missionary journey. There are also some new questions that arise because of this alignment and the author grapples with these as well. The article concludes with an appeal: it is time to ignore this theory no longer, but rather we should allow it to be seriously considered when the questions arise concerning the way Galatians and Acts inform our understanding of the converted Paul’s early years of activity.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09402001
Gregory Goswell
A Christological reading of the Psalter in which individual psalms are viewed as primarily the prayers of Jesus is evaluated. This recent evangelical tradition of interpretation goes as far as to assert that the Psalms are only secondarily our prayers. However, while the portrait of David the chief psalmist anticipates Jesus Christ as the ideal Davidic king, this does not require that everything in every psalm be applied to Jesus. When David confesses his sins and failings, these words cannot be placed on the lips of Jesus. It remains nonetheless legitimate for believers to make use of the Psalms and apply much of their content to themselves, for, especially in Books IV and V of the Psalter, David sets an example of devotion to God which others are meant to emulate. As well, a Christian rereading of the Psalter sees the God of the psalmist as the Trinity, so that what is said about God can be applied to Jesus Christ.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09401006
Jordan L. Steffaniak
The Philosophy of Mind is an ever-burgeoning field of research, yet there are few contemporary confessionally Reformed examples of serious philosophical engagement. I argue that Herman Bavinck is a worthy candidate for theological and philosophical retrieval. I argue that while Bavinck attempted to ward off the growing popularity of materialism in his day, his own philosophical commitments provide a gateway to several versions of it. In so arguing I attempt to retrieve his insights and formulate them into a coherent structure that is both theologically serious and philosophically interesting. I argue that he provides several conceptual resources that would be of value to those committed to various non-reductive physicalist proposals such as hylemorphic animalism.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09401001
Philip Church
Some have suggested that the recipients of Hebrews were tempted to revert to Judaism. The theory is problematic as they would have considered themselves faithful Israelites, not having converted from one religion (Judaism) to another (Christianity). This theory appeared in Britain in the seventeenth century, flourished in the nineteenth and into the twentieth, and since then has declined. The emergence of Jewish congregations in seventeenth-century England and the work of the London Jews Society in the nineteenth century are suggested as possible reasons for its prominence then. A variety of factors have led to its decline in the twentieth century.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1163/27725472-bja10002
P. C. Riley
How can Christians proclaim the divine sonship of Jesus? The challenge of answering this question is not new. In the first millennium, Arabic-speaking Christians faced misunderstanding and opposition when they proclaimed Jesus’s divine sonship. Christians ministering in Arabic-speaking contexts today can learn much from those who faced the same challenges centuries earlier. This article includes a presentation and discussion of strategies from the past for navigating this challenging issue today.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09401003
N. Reese
This article explores Endo Shusaku’s views of God and silence with the aim of sketching what I take to be Endo’s theology of silence. In service of this goal, I will delineate how Japanese culture and events in Endo’s life contributed to shaping his views of God and silence, which ultimately led to Endo’s theology of silence—one fitting his Japanese sensibilities. In Endo’s divine drama of silence, Christ, who is the eternal suffering companion, is the inhabiter of silence, while the Kakure Kirishitans—the oppressed and weary—are the pilgrims of silence. In the space of silence, ultimate beauty is revealed. God does not leave those who suffer alone; they are his to be comforted. Endo’s Christ is ineffectual to deliver from harm, yet he is effectual to comfort those who seemingly cannot be comforted and to love those who are seemingly unlovable.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09401005
Glenn A. Moots
American government is in a bad way, as are its churches, and politics and religion are entangled. Questions of ‘church and state’ or ‘establishment’ are far from settled. Hostility against Christianity seems to be on the rise. Articles and surveys about another American civil war proliferate. What can we learn from the past? Canon Press, always up for a good controversy, have released three timely books. Two are re-releases from eras when Protestants faced persecution and religious wars. The third offers a terse but ambitious history. The oldest of the two re-releases is the famous Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos (1579), a Huguenot tract published pseudonymously by ‘Junius Brutus’, and likely composed by Philippe deMornay (1549–1623). It joined three other books
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