Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10046
Skyler R. Flowers
Bavinck’s critical appropriation of modern grammar in discussing Christian doctrine has led to his being described as a thinker who is “modern yet orthodox.” His appropriation of modern philosophy and psychology is clearly seen in his use of ‘personality’ in his doctrine of God and anthropology. This article argues that his use in these two areas demonstrates the organic ontology of creatures created in the image of their Creator. Thus, in understanding divine personality, human personality comes into focus, both theologically and psychologically. The article concludes with reflections on how the study of personality in Bavinck’s writings helps one to understand his entire project.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01801007
Paul Dafydd Jones
{"title":"Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict, by Christiane Tietz","authors":"Paul Dafydd Jones","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01801007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01801007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141351716","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}
Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10055
Myk Habets
Recent attention has turned to Herman Bavinck’s discussion of theosis, with some arguing that he supported such a theology. I will challenge this, arguing instead that he misunderstood the nature of deification and rejected it on false grounds. Bavinck’s objections to theosis will be addressed to show how a Reformed doctrine of theosis can avoid the sorts of dualistic mysticism Bavinck rightly opposed. Bavinck’s criticisms of theosis are brought into dialogue with Thomas F. Torrance’s endorsement of theosis to see why Bavinck could not endorse a doctrine of theosis even if the mysticism he opposed were removed.
{"title":"Herman Bavinck’s Rejection of Theosis","authors":"Myk Habets","doi":"10.1163/15697312-bja10055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-bja10055","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Recent attention has turned to Herman Bavinck’s discussion of theosis, with some arguing that he supported such a theology. I will challenge this, arguing instead that he misunderstood the nature of deification and rejected it on false grounds. Bavinck’s objections to theosis will be addressed to show how a Reformed doctrine of theosis can avoid the sorts of dualistic mysticism Bavinck rightly opposed. Bavinck’s criticisms of theosis are brought into dialogue with Thomas F. Torrance’s endorsement of theosis to see why Bavinck could not endorse a doctrine of theosis even if the mysticism he opposed were removed.","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141354543","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}
Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10054
Sean Luke
Several authors have recently argued that the Reformed doctrine of providence poses particular problems of evil that are intractable. How can one hold to a robust, Reformed doctrine of providence without either making God the author of evil or turning God into a Machiavellian tyrant? In this paper, I outline a model of providence I call “Beatific Governance”, in which God ordains and directs all that comes to pass unto the display of his beauty in all things without being the author of evil; and he does so, I argue, without violating an agent-causal view of freedom. I then resource this model to address several formulations of the problem of evil.
{"title":"Beatific Governance and the Problems of Evil","authors":"Sean Luke","doi":"10.1163/15697312-bja10054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-bja10054","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Several authors have recently argued that the Reformed doctrine of providence poses particular problems of evil that are intractable. How can one hold to a robust, Reformed doctrine of providence without either making God the author of evil or turning God into a Machiavellian tyrant? In this paper, I outline a model of providence I call “Beatific Governance”, in which God ordains and directs all that comes to pass unto the display of his beauty in all things without being the author of evil; and he does so, I argue, without violating an agent-causal view of freedom. I then resource this model to address several formulations of the problem of evil.","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141354797","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}
Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10059
Michael Patrick Preciado
The present essay addresses Richard Muller’s most recent comments regarding the Reformed Orthodox in comparison with contemporary compatibilism. Muller’s work is undeniably excellent. However, it suffers from a considerable weakness. That weakness is his lack of interaction with contemporary compatibilism. This causes him to misunderstand its nature and falsely claim that the Reformed Orthodox cannot be labeled as compatibilists. I argue that a more serious analysis of contemporary compatibilism shows that the Reformed Orthodox are correctly labeled as compatibilists. I do so by examining Muller’s main claims as to why the Reformed Orthodox were not compatibilists. In this examination, I argue that he has misunderstood the thesis of compatibilism and confused it with other metaphysical doctrines.
{"title":"Muller’s Compatibilism","authors":"Michael Patrick Preciado","doi":"10.1163/15697312-bja10059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-bja10059","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The present essay addresses Richard Muller’s most recent comments regarding the Reformed Orthodox in comparison with contemporary compatibilism. Muller’s work is undeniably excellent. However, it suffers from a considerable weakness. That weakness is his lack of interaction with contemporary compatibilism. This causes him to misunderstand its nature and falsely claim that the Reformed Orthodox cannot be labeled as compatibilists. I argue that a more serious analysis of contemporary compatibilism shows that the Reformed Orthodox are correctly labeled as compatibilists. I do so by examining Muller’s main claims as to why the Reformed Orthodox were not compatibilists. In this examination, I argue that he has misunderstood the thesis of compatibilism and confused it with other metaphysical doctrines.","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141354037","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}
Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01801003
Forrest H. Buckner
{"title":"Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics for Everyone: Volume 1, The Doctrine of the Word of God, by Marty Folsom","authors":"Forrest H. Buckner","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01801003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01801003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141352532","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}
Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01801004
Jack Esselink
{"title":"AI, Faith, and the Future—An Interdisciplinary Approach, by Michael J. Paulus, Jr. and Michael D. Langford, eds.","authors":"Jack Esselink","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01801004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01801004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141351113","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}
Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01801009
G. Soderberg
{"title":"Martin Bucer: An Introduction to His Life and Theology, by Donald K. McKim and Jim West","authors":"G. Soderberg","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01801009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01801009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141350608","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}
Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10062
S. Ha
Many scholars have argued and assumed that Protestantism broke away from virtue ethics. However, recent scholarship has revealed that it is not necessarily the case. This article’s aim is to go a step further than that. It will explore the subject even more fully by digging deeper into a specific element of virtue ethics in Calvin, namely, his thought on habit formation. I argue that Calvin’s distinctive habit formation plays a significant role in his ethics. In my analysis, although Calvin appreciates the limit of habit’s power, he emphasizes the significance of divinely initiated and guided habit formation.
{"title":"“Perpetuum studium et exercitationem mortificandae carnis”","authors":"S. Ha","doi":"10.1163/15697312-bja10062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-bja10062","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Many scholars have argued and assumed that Protestantism broke away from virtue ethics. However, recent scholarship has revealed that it is not necessarily the case. This article’s aim is to go a step further than that. It will explore the subject even more fully by digging deeper into a specific element of virtue ethics in Calvin, namely, his thought on habit formation. I argue that Calvin’s distinctive habit formation plays a significant role in his ethics. In my analysis, although Calvin appreciates the limit of habit’s power, he emphasizes the significance of divinely initiated and guided habit formation.","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141355310","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}
Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01801005
Claire Fenner Crawley
{"title":"Church Conflicts: The Cross, Apocalyptic, and Political Resistance, by Ernst Käsemann","authors":"Claire Fenner Crawley","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01801005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01801005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141353618","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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