{"title":"Emmanuel Durand, Divine Speech in Humans Words: Thomistic Engagements with Scripture. Edited by Matthew K. Minerd. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022, xv + 460pp. $65.00","authors":"Joshua H. Lim","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12724","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oliver O'Donovan, The Disappearance of Ethics: The 2021 St. Andrews Gifford Lectures. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2024, v + 161 pp. $40.99","authors":"Daniel J. Treier","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12725","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pui Him Ip, Origen and the Emergence of Divine Simplicity Before Nicaea. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022, 278pp. $45.00","authors":"Marcus Plested","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12726","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gregory J. Liston, Kingdom Come: An Eschatological Third Article Ecclesiology. London: T&T Clark, 2022, 218pp. $35.95","authors":"Aaron P. Edwards","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12723","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Steven Edward Harris, Refiguring Resurrection: A Biblical and Systematic Eschatology. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2023, 318pp. $64.99","authors":"Myk Habets","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12727","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John E. Thiel, Now and Forever: A Theological Aesthetics of Time. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023, 203pp. $50.00","authors":"R. T. Mullins","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12722","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12722","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
According to plural person theory, a group of close friends can act together not just distributively, as separate individuals all at once, but also corporately, as a nonmetaphorical plural person supervening on the friends. This article proposes that the Spirit is a plural person in precisely this sense. Modeling the Spirit as a plural person not only secures the Spirit's personhood and full divinity; it also provides a new conceptual scheme for interpreting the relationship between divine grace and human agency along non‐competitive lines. What is more, it makes sense of existing Christian practices, including Ignatian contemplation, evangelical quiet time, and Quaker waiting worship.
{"title":"The Spirit as Plural Person","authors":"Olivia Bustion","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12719","url":null,"abstract":"According to plural person theory, a group of close friends can act together not just distributively, as separate individuals all at once, but also corporately, as a nonmetaphorical plural person supervening on the friends. This article proposes that the Spirit is a plural person in precisely this sense. Modeling the Spirit as a plural person not only secures the Spirit's personhood and full divinity; it also provides a new conceptual scheme for interpreting the relationship between divine grace and human agency along non‐competitive lines. What is more, it makes sense of existing Christian practices, including Ignatian contemplation, evangelical quiet time, and Quaker waiting worship.","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141869051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recent work in eschatology has sought to retrieve the doctrine of the beatific vision, one that has served as one of the predominant views of the eschatological life throughout church history. Yet the doctrine has been criticized for its reported marginalization of the human body. This essay seeks to provide a modest contribution and response to this objection through the retrieval of 17th‐century theologian Petrus van Mastricht. I argue that humanity's telos can be conceived of as complex involving a particular mode of life with God that the visio Dei makes possible, one which requires the resurrection and glorification of the body.
末世论的最新研究成果试图重拾 "幸福异象 "的教义,这一教义在整个教会历史中一直是末世生活的主要观点之一。然而,该学说却因其将人体边缘化的报道而饱受批评。本文试图通过对 17 世纪神学家佩特鲁斯-范-马斯特里赫特(Petrus van Mastricht)的研究,对这一反对意见做出微薄的贡献和回应。我认为,人类的终极目标可以被理解为复杂的,涉及到一种与上帝同在的特殊生活模式,这种生活模式需要身体的复活和荣耀。
{"title":"The Colophon of Eternal Beatitude: Petrus van Mastricht, the Visio Dei, and the Resurrection of the Body","authors":"Daniel Lee Hill","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12721","url":null,"abstract":"Recent work in eschatology has sought to retrieve the doctrine of the beatific vision, one that has served as one of the predominant views of the eschatological life throughout church history. Yet the doctrine has been criticized for its reported marginalization of the human body. This essay seeks to provide a modest contribution and response to this objection through the retrieval of 17th‐century theologian Petrus van Mastricht. I argue that humanity's telos can be conceived of as complex involving a particular mode of life with God that the visio Dei makes possible, one which requires the resurrection and glorification of the body.","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141869050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Changes in the scientific picture of the origin and destiny of the physical universe present particular challenges to Christian eschatology. Both the great expansion of our picture of the size and age of the universe and the recent perception of an inexorable progression of the universe toward heat death in the far future alter the secular understanding of the universe with which Christian theology engages. In this essay, these challenges are considered in relation to how the theologian is to understand the eschatological role of physical objects far removed from interaction with humanity, for example, distant stars. Anthropocentric understandings of their role become implausible in light of recent changes in cosmology. This essay explores the traditional doctrine of bodily resurrection as a potential key to understanding the eschatological significance of stars. The insistence that the risen body is both radically transformed and yet numerically identical with the present body provides some parameters for understanding the nature of an eschatologically transformed universe and how its flourishing might be a witness to the glory of God.
{"title":"Will the Stars Sing on the Last Day? Cosmology and Eschatology†","authors":"Michael Root","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12720","url":null,"abstract":"Changes in the scientific picture of the origin and destiny of the physical universe present particular challenges to Christian eschatology. Both the great expansion of our picture of the size and age of the universe and the recent perception of an inexorable progression of the universe toward heat death in the far future alter the secular understanding of the universe with which Christian theology engages. In this essay, these challenges are considered in relation to how the theologian is to understand the eschatological role of physical objects far removed from interaction with humanity, for example, distant stars. Anthropocentric understandings of their role become implausible in light of recent changes in cosmology. This essay explores the traditional doctrine of bodily resurrection as a potential key to understanding the eschatological significance of stars. The insistence that the risen body is both radically transformed and yet numerically identical with the present body provides some parameters for understanding the nature of an eschatologically transformed universe and how its flourishing might be a witness to the glory of God.","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141341634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay evaluates possible meanings of God's creative ‘let’ in Genesis 1 in order to evaluate how God's generative love of creation forms a paradigm for human love. Beginning with the work of philosopher John Haugeland, who gives four possible meanings of letting‐be in his reading of Heidegger, this essay argues that creation is best understood in terms of Haugeland's model of letting‐be as enabling, in which what is created are conditions of possibility rather than determined outcomes. Understanding God's relationship to creation as making‐possible then sets the stage for characterizing right human relations as superabundantly generative rather than simply the absence of conflict.
{"title":"Loving and Letting: A Constructive Reading of Genesis 1","authors":"J. W. Olson","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12710","url":null,"abstract":"This essay evaluates possible meanings of God's creative ‘let’ in Genesis 1 in order to evaluate how God's generative love of creation forms a paradigm for human love. Beginning with the work of philosopher John Haugeland, who gives four possible meanings of letting‐be in his reading of Heidegger, this essay argues that creation is best understood in terms of Haugeland's model of letting‐be as enabling, in which what is created are conditions of possibility rather than determined outcomes. Understanding God's relationship to creation as making‐possible then sets the stage for characterizing right human relations as superabundantly generative rather than simply the absence of conflict.","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141373487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}