Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1017/s0036930622000886
M. Percy
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1017/S0036930622000849
Roger L. Revell
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1017/S0036930622000898
J. Couenhoven
the connection between love of God and neighbour is a New Testament innovation, she also notes the frequent connection of these two ideas in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. Another scholar might look at the same material and find greater resemblance between the New Testament and its Jewish cultural surroundings. Furthermore, Wischmeyer reads agape as a concept that leaves the law behind. Many scholars would disagree, understanding much of the New Testament, and Paul in particular, as maintaining the law’s importance. Love may indeed play a role in how Paul communicates his understanding of the law: by pointing to love as the centre of the law, Paul opens a way for Gentiles who exhibit love to fulfil the law.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1017/s0036930622000771
Mark A. Heffley
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000029
Stephen R. Holmes
Oosterbaan identified a tradition of Anabaptist christology running from Ziegler in Strassborg in the 1520s to Menno Simons in the 1550s. I demonstrate that this tradition continued until at least around 1700, first amongst the Waterlander Mennonites in the Netherlands, and then amongst the English General Baptists. I sketch the development and diversity of the tradition, and then ask whether it might be considered ‘orthodox’, and whether reflecting on the scholarly reception of this tradition might help academic theologians to engage better with marginalised Christian communities today.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1017/S003693062200076X
W. D. Persaud
pace of the book will be something of a difficulty: complicated, nuanced issues are dealt with decisively and briefly; strong views are expressed pithily, and opposing views dismissed; those looking for an elaborate, patient exploration of disputed matters may be disappointed. But to measure this book by the criteria of, say, an academic monograph would be to risk missing the point. Avis’ theology is first and foremost a church theology. Its audience is not only scholars but, in the rather woolly argot favoured in church circles today, ‘practitioners’, that is, church leaders, those involved in church life at local level, those who have the capacity to influence and shape the church of the future. This is the case for the prosecution aimed against those who complacently assume division is acceptable and ecumenism an unaffordable luxury. It is almost as if one could imagine Avis speaking to an audience of church leaders who think they know something of modern theology and modern church history: he wants them to come away changed from the encounter. This is theology for practice. Avis’ style of writing may not be explicitly polemical, but it is engaged, passionate and opinionated. At the same time, he is always careful to lay out opposing positions, and sensitive to the relevance of history to ecclesiology. Even those who do not agree with his overall position will undoubtedly learn a great deal from his discussion of authors. For that reason, in this reviewer’s opinion there could hardly be a better introduction to the theological complexities of the movement for Christian unity.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1017/S0036930622000953
Cory Griess
Abstract In the thirtieth disputation of the Leiden Synopsis (1622), Johannes Polyander elucidates what he considers to be the Reformed doctrine of vocatio. In his explanation of this doctrine, Polyander makes surprising statements concerning the internal call. He teaches that not only the external call, but also the internal call can come to the reprobate. It does not do so all the time, but it does so sometimes, especially in the sphere of the covenant. Yet, when it does, that internal call is ineffectual. This doctrine of an ineffectual internal call is not found in the Canons of Dordt (1618–19), nor in disputations held before the cycle of disputations that became the Leiden Synopsis. Was Polyander's view a compromise with Arminianism? Or was Polyander actually defending Dordt's doctrine? This article builds on Henk van Den Belt's cursory conclusion to this question by providing proof that Polyander was in fact defending Dordt.
在《莱顿概要》(1622)的第三十篇论辩中，约翰内斯·波利安德阐明了他认为是改革宗的圣召教义。在他对这一学说的解释中，波利安德对内在召唤做出了令人惊讶的陈述。他教导说，不仅是外在的召唤，内在的召唤也可以召唤恶人。它并不是一直如此，但有时确实如此，尤其是在契约的领域。然而，当它这样做时，内部调用是无效的。这种无效的内部召唤的学说在《多特信条》(1618-19)中找不到，也没有在成为《莱顿概要》的争论周期之前举行的争论中找到。波利安德的观点是对阿米念主义的妥协吗?或者波利安德实际上是在捍卫多特的学说?本文以Henk van Den Belt对这个问题的粗略结论为基础，提供证据证明Polyander实际上是在为Dordt辩护。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1017/S0036930623000017
Benjamin P. Myers
Abstract Is the doctrine of providence a guide to interpreting history? The early work of John Milton is optimistic about the possibility of such providential discernment. Milton lived during one of the most turbulent periods of English history and was actively involved in the cause of revolution and social reform. His poems typically centre on moments of historical change that seem to illuminate the ultimate meaning of history. After his revolutionary hopes had been shattered, Milton came to perceive a much more ambiguous relationship between history and providence. What history reveals, he now thought, is mostly a pattern of repetition and decline. Milton ends Paradise Lost with the reflection that belief in providence is not so much a species of knowledge as a practice of life. This article traces Milton's movement from providential optimism to providential pessimism and argues for a conception of history in which even acts of divine intervention do not unambiguously alter the course of history.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-16DOI: 10.1017/S0036930622001016
John Rowlands
Abstract In this article, I argue for the centrality of prayer within Christian interpretation of scripture. This argument is made in two stages. First, Christ on the road to Emmaus is the interpreter of scripture par excellence, such that scriptural interpretation is fruitfully understood as participation in Christ's interpretation of scripture to and for the church. Second, scriptural interpretation must take prayer as central to an appropriate scriptural hermeneutics, since prayer is one way in which the reader of scripture becomes conformed to person of Christ.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-15DOI: 10.1017/S0036930622001028
S. Maclean
Abstract This article examines T. F. Torrance's engagement with Catholicism. It uncovers the breadth and depth of his ecumenical spirit, while concurrently shedding light on his own theological development. The article reveals an evolution in Torrance's posture toward Catholicism, moving from fierce criticism to critical praise, with the Second Vatican Council as a watershed in his thinking. His criticism was provoked by what he considered the fundamental problem with Catholicism (namely, the ‘Latin heresy’ in its theology); while his praise was elicited by the evangelical, christocentric, and ecumenical spirit of the Council.
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