This paper discusses the book of Richard Cross, Communicatio idiomatum: Reformation Christological Debates (Oxford University Press 2019). It basically agrees with Cross's view that Martin Luther develops a new variant of the medieval theory of suppositional union in his Christology. The paper argues that the view put forward by Cross has consequences for the soteriological role of human body. While “Christ present in faith” is a corporeal and supernatural gift, it may not be an instance of deification in the sense that human beings could sustain divine properties. Another issue concerns the sense in which Christ can be called a human “person” in Cross's view. As Christ carries a specific instance of human nature which in turn carries a particular instance of corporeality, one could claim that Christ as human being has a particular personalitas. This view resembles the trajectory of “patristic philosophy,” as recently argued by Johannes Zachhuber.
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In The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk gives language to what has become a cross-disciplinary consensus—that our bodies and minds are profoundly, often surprisingly, involved with one another, and that traumatic events often mark people for life. In this article, I ask after the implications of this contemporary consensus for the resurrected body, in light of traditional claims about the body's perfection and persistence of identity in the resurrection. I widen the focus to include various ways in which the body might keep the score. In addition to trauma, I consider martyrdom, disfigurement, and disability. Whatever else it may mean, bodily resurrection must entail the completion of one's earthly life. In light of this, while there will be no debilitating signs of sin and death, it seems reasonable to suppose there may be salutary and doxologically oriented reminders of sin and death in the resurrected body.
{"title":"Does the Body Keep the Score After the Game Is Over? Personal Identity and Perfection in the Resurrected Body","authors":"Matt Jenson","doi":"10.1177/10638512231205187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10638512231205187","url":null,"abstract":"In The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk gives language to what has become a cross-disciplinary consensus—that our bodies and minds are profoundly, often surprisingly, involved with one another, and that traumatic events often mark people for life. In this article, I ask after the implications of this contemporary consensus for the resurrected body, in light of traditional claims about the body's perfection and persistence of identity in the resurrection. I widen the focus to include various ways in which the body might keep the score. In addition to trauma, I consider martyrdom, disfigurement, and disability. Whatever else it may mean, bodily resurrection must entail the completion of one's earthly life. In light of this, while there will be no debilitating signs of sin and death, it seems reasonable to suppose there may be salutary and doxologically oriented reminders of sin and death in the resurrected body.","PeriodicalId":493571,"journal":{"name":"Pro ecclesia","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135969124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: <i>Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of the Reformation-Era Divisions</i> by Emery de Gaal and Matthew Levering","authors":"Austin Suggs","doi":"10.1177/10638512231205249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10638512231205249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":493571,"journal":{"name":"Pro ecclesia","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136062410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This response to Richard Cross offers a different interpretation of Luther's employment of the communicatio idiomatum. Whereas Cross wants to place Luther's understanding of the communicatio idiomatum within a strictly philosophical framework of abstractions in order to make it fit a scholastic understanding, Luther firmly objects to such a m odus operandi. Luther clearly differentiates between philosophy and theology, finding the former insufficient when dealing with Christology and soteriology. Counter to the scholastics but in continuity with Bernard of Clairvaux, Luther's Christology is incarnational and bound to humanity. To Luther it is fundamental that God can and will be known only as a human being (homo), yet Christ's real presence is presented three-dimensionally. Luther's complex understanding of Christ as really human and the Word incarnate is reflected in his intense work with semantics and the art of translation. Hence Christ is precisely human, not male; ministry is reconfigured as a human function ( ministerium verbi), not a substitute for divine sacredness that is assigned to the Catholic vicarious Christi.
对理查德·克罗斯的回应提供了对路德使用惯用沟通的不同解释。尽管克罗斯想把路德对惯用沟通的理解置于抽象的严格哲学框架中，以使其符合学术的理解，路德坚决反对这种“操作方式”。路德明确区分哲学和神学，发现前者在处理基督论和救赎论时是不够的。与经院学者相反，但与克莱沃的伯纳德(Bernard of Clairvaux)保持一致，路德的基督论是道成肉身的，与人类息息相关。对路德来说，最基本的是上帝只能以人(homo)的身份被认识，然而基督的真实存在是三维的。路德对基督作为真正的人类和道成肉身的复杂理解反映在他对语义学和翻译艺术的紧张工作中。因此，基督恰恰是人，而不是男性;事奉被重新配置为人类的功能(ministerium verbi)，而不是被分配给天主教基督的神圣性的替代品。
{"title":"A Lutheran Interpretation of <i>Communicatio Idiomatum</i>: A Response to Richard Cross","authors":"Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen","doi":"10.1177/10638512231205225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10638512231205225","url":null,"abstract":"This response to Richard Cross offers a different interpretation of Luther's employment of the communicatio idiomatum. Whereas Cross wants to place Luther's understanding of the communicatio idiomatum within a strictly philosophical framework of abstractions in order to make it fit a scholastic understanding, Luther firmly objects to such a m odus operandi. Luther clearly differentiates between philosophy and theology, finding the former insufficient when dealing with Christology and soteriology. Counter to the scholastics but in continuity with Bernard of Clairvaux, Luther's Christology is incarnational and bound to humanity. To Luther it is fundamental that God can and will be known only as a human being (homo), yet Christ's real presence is presented three-dimensionally. Luther's complex understanding of Christ as really human and the Word incarnate is reflected in his intense work with semantics and the art of translation. Hence Christ is precisely human, not male; ministry is reconfigured as a human function ( ministerium verbi), not a substitute for divine sacredness that is assigned to the Catholic vicarious Christi.","PeriodicalId":493571,"journal":{"name":"Pro ecclesia","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136357988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recent theological and philosophical accounts of race have rightly called into question race and racial identity's rootedness in the created order. If race is not a fact of human biology or physiology but is instead the product of imposing malicious institutional judgments on members of the human community, does the Christian confession of faith in the resurrection of the body and life everlasting entail a resurrection and redemption from racial identity? Building on the work of Jonathan Tran and Eleonore Stump, this author argues that race persists in the eschatological state as a healed wound or scar that indexes the lamentable past from which we have been redeemed.
{"title":"The End of Race? Racial Identity and the Resurrection of the Body","authors":"Daniel Lee Hill","doi":"10.1177/10638512231205214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10638512231205214","url":null,"abstract":"Recent theological and philosophical accounts of race have rightly called into question race and racial identity's rootedness in the created order. If race is not a fact of human biology or physiology but is instead the product of imposing malicious institutional judgments on members of the human community, does the Christian confession of faith in the resurrection of the body and life everlasting entail a resurrection and redemption from racial identity? Building on the work of Jonathan Tran and Eleonore Stump, this author argues that race persists in the eschatological state as a healed wound or scar that indexes the lamentable past from which we have been redeemed.","PeriodicalId":493571,"journal":{"name":"Pro ecclesia","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136358500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuity and Transformation: Medieval Christology in the Reformation","authors":"Volker Leppin","doi":"10.1177/10638512231205224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10638512231205224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":493571,"journal":{"name":"Pro ecclesia","volume":"290 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135095748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: <i>Rethinking Paul: Protestant Theology and Pauline Exegesis</i> by Edwin Chr. van Driel","authors":"Stephen J. Chester","doi":"10.1177/10638512231205232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10638512231205232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":493571,"journal":{"name":"Pro ecclesia","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135095751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recent work in systematic and moral theology has sought to recover a sense of the normativity of eschatology, claiming that it is a central task of moral reasoning to stretch itself to imagine our final state of affairs to guide our actions in our current times and places. At the same time, there is a growing theological consensus that gender will not persist into the eschaton. It seems, then, that eschatological normativity cannot be applied to our moral reasoning about gender. This article will attempt to resolve this incompatibility by arguing for the eschatological presence of gender. In favor of those claiming that we need eschatologically-informed ethics, especially with respect to gender, I will show that the arguments provided for gender's eschatological absence face difficulties that they cannot overcome, chief of which is the disjunction between creation and redemption they introduce.
{"title":"Gender Identity: To Infinity and Beyond","authors":"Fellipe do Vale","doi":"10.1177/10638512231205215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10638512231205215","url":null,"abstract":"Recent work in systematic and moral theology has sought to recover a sense of the normativity of eschatology, claiming that it is a central task of moral reasoning to stretch itself to imagine our final state of affairs to guide our actions in our current times and places. At the same time, there is a growing theological consensus that gender will not persist into the eschaton. It seems, then, that eschatological normativity cannot be applied to our moral reasoning about gender. This article will attempt to resolve this incompatibility by arguing for the eschatological presence of gender. In favor of those claiming that we need eschatologically-informed ethics, especially with respect to gender, I will show that the arguments provided for gender's eschatological absence face difficulties that they cannot overcome, chief of which is the disjunction between creation and redemption they introduce.","PeriodicalId":493571,"journal":{"name":"Pro ecclesia","volume":"301 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134974843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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