Pub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000479
Aden Cotterill
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Pub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000455
Pat Oden
{"title":"Emilio Alvarez, Pentecostal Orthodoxy: Toward an Ecumenism of the Spirit (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2022), pp. xiv + 174. $24.00.","authors":"Pat Oden","doi":"10.1017/s0036930623000455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0036930623000455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45995943","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}
Pub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000601
R. Feenstra
{"title":"Cory C. Brock and N. Gray Sutanto, Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 2022), pp. xxii + 322. $24.99.","authors":"R. Feenstra","doi":"10.1017/s0036930623000601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0036930623000601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48382441","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}
Pub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000546
Kenneth G. Appold
Of the three major Reformers, Zwingli remains the least studied and the least understood. That, as Bruce Gordon points out in his excellent new biography, has a lot to do with the uncomfortable legacy left by Zwingli’s manner of death: the preacher died in battle. Gordon does not shy away from this fact, as many others have, and instead embraces it. The book’s title is not accidental. It is well-chosen and it signals a set of themes that will run throughout the author’s highly engaging account of this oft neglected but profoundly formative leader of the Reformation. The first two chapters, titled ‘Mountain Valley’ and ‘Humanist Priest’, set the tone. The basic contours of Zwingli’s early life are fairly well-known to scholars – in part because there is so little to know; documentary evidence is scarce. Zwingli left few autobiographical insights or written works from his time before Zurich. Gordon makes the most of what there is. As he deftly illustrates, what we do know about Zwingli’s early years is vitally important for understanding his later trajectory. Born in a wealthy peasant family in an alpine village, Zwingli’s ‘formation...was dictated by a deep-rooted attachment to land and people, by the faith of his parents, by an acute sense of the depredations in God’s world, and by ever-present violence’ (p. 11). Landscape motifs, drawing from those mountainous vistas, played a prominent role in Zwingli’s language throughout his life. So, too, did his sympathy for the simple lives and values of his peasant neighbours. Although he would attain international acclaim and participate in a Europe-wide network of correspondence, he remained self-consciously Swiss. At least at first, he saw his main opponents not in the pope but in the traditional Swiss nemesis, the Habsburgs. His patriotism, as Gordon’s subsequent chapters show, ran deep, seemed at times all-consuming, but was also multi-layered and complicated. Zwingli, more than Luther and arguably even Calvin, aimed his Reformation at both faith and society; the two remained inextricably linked. Gordon compellingly argues that only by understanding this link can one begin to make sense of the Reformer’s taking up arms and riding into battle. The enemy was not just internal, but embodied by all those who opposed the preaching of the word and the creation of a unified Reformed Confederation. Zwingli’s early years contain another key to understanding his later career: his passion for learning and his humanist education. Inspired by Erasmus, Zwingli crafted an ethos of spiritual renewal that was based in humanist ideals of the Renaissance. As Gordon observes, Zwingli – perhaps alone among the Reformers – is prepared to count classical figures such as Hercules and Socrates among the blessed. The Zurich Prophezei, which after 1525 gathered scholars to study and ultimately translate into German the entire
{"title":"Bruce Gordon, Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021), pp. xxi + 349. $32.50.","authors":"Kenneth G. Appold","doi":"10.1017/s0036930623000546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0036930623000546","url":null,"abstract":"Of the three major Reformers, Zwingli remains the least studied and the least understood. That, as Bruce Gordon points out in his excellent new biography, has a lot to do with the uncomfortable legacy left by Zwingli’s manner of death: the preacher died in battle. Gordon does not shy away from this fact, as many others have, and instead embraces it. The book’s title is not accidental. It is well-chosen and it signals a set of themes that will run throughout the author’s highly engaging account of this oft neglected but profoundly formative leader of the Reformation. The first two chapters, titled ‘Mountain Valley’ and ‘Humanist Priest’, set the tone. The basic contours of Zwingli’s early life are fairly well-known to scholars – in part because there is so little to know; documentary evidence is scarce. Zwingli left few autobiographical insights or written works from his time before Zurich. Gordon makes the most of what there is. As he deftly illustrates, what we do know about Zwingli’s early years is vitally important for understanding his later trajectory. Born in a wealthy peasant family in an alpine village, Zwingli’s ‘formation...was dictated by a deep-rooted attachment to land and people, by the faith of his parents, by an acute sense of the depredations in God’s world, and by ever-present violence’ (p. 11). Landscape motifs, drawing from those mountainous vistas, played a prominent role in Zwingli’s language throughout his life. So, too, did his sympathy for the simple lives and values of his peasant neighbours. Although he would attain international acclaim and participate in a Europe-wide network of correspondence, he remained self-consciously Swiss. At least at first, he saw his main opponents not in the pope but in the traditional Swiss nemesis, the Habsburgs. His patriotism, as Gordon’s subsequent chapters show, ran deep, seemed at times all-consuming, but was also multi-layered and complicated. Zwingli, more than Luther and arguably even Calvin, aimed his Reformation at both faith and society; the two remained inextricably linked. Gordon compellingly argues that only by understanding this link can one begin to make sense of the Reformer’s taking up arms and riding into battle. The enemy was not just internal, but embodied by all those who opposed the preaching of the word and the creation of a unified Reformed Confederation. Zwingli’s early years contain another key to understanding his later career: his passion for learning and his humanist education. Inspired by Erasmus, Zwingli crafted an ethos of spiritual renewal that was based in humanist ideals of the Renaissance. As Gordon observes, Zwingli – perhaps alone among the Reformers – is prepared to count classical figures such as Hercules and Socrates among the blessed. The Zurich Prophezei, which after 1525 gathered scholars to study and ultimately translate into German the entire","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":"76 1","pages":"378 - 379"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45951447","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}
Pub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000431
W. Greenway
Christ, is not indicative of the main theme of the book’s two parts. None of them offers an Arabic theological interpretation of Jesus Christ’s event or life, identity and ministry, let alone reasoning theologically about Christology. On the other hand, the description of an ‘Arab Christian theology of conviviality’ in the book’s subtitle in terms of ‘towardness’ gives the impression that the author is inviting the readers to ponder the possibility of developing a theological discourse that has not been moved towards before, and that the author is initiating, if not pioneering, this towardness. The second part of the book demonstrates that this is far from being the case. A more appropriate and telling title to the book would be something like: The Lebanese Christians: Politico-Contextual Models of a Theology of Conviviality. Notwithstanding these qualifications, this book offers a useful text to expose students, scholars and interested readers on what is going on theologically in that turbulent part of the world.
{"title":"Grant Kaplan, Faith and Reason in Christian History: A Theological Essay (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022), pp. xvi + 360. $29.95.","authors":"W. Greenway","doi":"10.1017/s0036930623000431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0036930623000431","url":null,"abstract":"Christ, is not indicative of the main theme of the book’s two parts. None of them offers an Arabic theological interpretation of Jesus Christ’s event or life, identity and ministry, let alone reasoning theologically about Christology. On the other hand, the description of an ‘Arab Christian theology of conviviality’ in the book’s subtitle in terms of ‘towardness’ gives the impression that the author is inviting the readers to ponder the possibility of developing a theological discourse that has not been moved towards before, and that the author is initiating, if not pioneering, this towardness. The second part of the book demonstrates that this is far from being the case. A more appropriate and telling title to the book would be something like: The Lebanese Christians: Politico-Contextual Models of a Theology of Conviviality. Notwithstanding these qualifications, this book offers a useful text to expose students, scholars and interested readers on what is going on theologically in that turbulent part of the world.","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":"76 1","pages":"396 - 397"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44762298","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}
Pub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000595
S. Haynes
{"title":"Peter M. Waddell, Broken Gospel? Christianity and the Holocaust (London: James Clarke & Co., 2022), pp. x + 177. £22.50.","authors":"S. Haynes","doi":"10.1017/s0036930623000595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0036930623000595","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46962484","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}
Pub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000509
Rebecca DeYoung
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{"title":"William C. Mattison III, Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023), pp. 264. $49.95.","authors":"Rebecca DeYoung","doi":"10.1017/s0036930623000509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0036930623000509","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135016522","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}
Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000364
Frank Della Torre II
In this paper, I revisit a debate between Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Barth, known as the ‘Barth–Feuerbach confrontation’. I begin by framing the contours of this dispute as it was initiated by Barth and carried forward by his interpreters, who have sought in vain to make Barth's and Feuerbach's positions commensurable. Having narrated the history of this ongoing scholarly discussion and clarified why it remains intractable, I turn to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose this-worldly conception of theology, I argue, provides resources for ‘mediating’ the insights of Feuerbach and Barth. By attending to Bonhoeffer's earliest engagements with Barth on the question of divine revelation, and by exploring his striking proximity to Feuerbach on the issue of this-worldliness, we can see how Bonhoeffer helps overcome not only the dichotomies that plague the Barth–Feuerbach confrontation but also those that pervade modern attempts to safeguard this-worldliness by dispensing with divine transcendence.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000388
C. Spinks
This essay examines the relationship between Jean-Luc Marion's argument of ‘conceptual idolatry’ and John Duns Scotus’ doctrine of the univocity of being. I argue that Scotus does fall under Marion's criticisms, which radically undermine the use of ‘being’ in theology, but that univocity, in its barest Scotist form, also seems impossible to avoid. After arguing that attempts to move past this ontological conundrum fail, I conclude the relationship stands at an impasse. While this conclusion is critical, I make it for the sake of a constructive argument: post-metaphysical theology should reckon with the inevitability of being, appreciating this impasse between the apparent hegemony of being and the priority of God's self-revelation. Making the impasse clear at least points the way towards a renewed theological consideration of being.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000376
Jared Michelson
Schleiermacher's theological champions like Kevin Hector contend that his Christology is ‘high’ and is Chalcedonian in spirit. I offer a number of objections to this view, suggesting that Schleiermacher offers a distinctive, early modern account of Christ as a uniquely deified redeemer but not of Christ as the uncreated God. This raises some surprising questions for the dogmatic relation of Christology, soteriology and anthropology.
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