Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10036
Thomas H. McCall
Contemporary systematic theology is engaged in the ‘retrieval’ of insights from the Christian tradition. Accordingly, many theologians in the broadly Reformed tradition are seeking to recover, reclaim, and defend what they refer to as ‘classical theism’ as a stark alternative to what is sometimes referred to as ‘theistic personalism’ (and the ‘Social Trinitarianism’ that is said to accompany it). While broadly sympathetic to this enterprise, in this essay I employ the theology of Charles Hodge as a case study to argue that such tidy categorizations can be misleading and unhelpful, and I conclude that his theology raises challenges with respect to both historiography and theology.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10039
Christopher Woznicki
This article demonstrates analytic theology’s contribution to missiology by turning to T.F. Torrance’s theology of mission as a test case. Upon examining Torrance’s missiological contribution, it becomes apparent that his notion of the end of mission—the personalization of humanity—is conceptually fuzzy. I demonstrate how analytic theology can clarify, and further develop, this aspect of Torrance’s missiology, and thus conclude that if analytic theology can help to bring clarity to the missiological proposals of one missional theologian, then perhaps analytic theology might lay claim to the possibility of playing a greater role within the discipline of missiology.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10053
Andrew M. Leslie
This article examines the typological patterns that distinguish Jerome Zanchi’s exposition of human creation in his De Operibus Dei intra spatium sex dierum creatis (1591). It argues that Zanchi’s distinctive application of the principle that Christ is the “scope” and “substance” of scripture to the exegesis of the relevant texts in Genesis 1–2 is tied to a conviction that Christ’s mediatorial headship over the church embraces a continuity of operations between the prelapsarian and postlapsarian states. Because of this he believes that the prelapsarian type, or figurative sign, can participate in the antitype, or the spiritual reality the type signifies, without eliding the critical distinction between them, as illustrated in his articulation of the “image of God.”
本文研究了杰罗姆-赞奇（Jerome Zanchi）在其《神的操作》（De Operibus Dei intra spatium sex dierum creatis，1591 年）中对人类创造的论述所采用的类型学模式。该书认为，赞奇将基督是圣经的 "范围 "和 "实质 "这一原则独特地应用于《创世纪》第 1-2 章相关经文的注释，这与他坚信基督对教会的中保元首地位包含了 "迭代前 "和 "迭代后 "状态之间运作的连续性有关。正因为如此，他认为 "迭代前的类型 "或 "象征性的符号 "可以参与 "反例 "或 "类型 "所象征的属灵现实，而不会忽略两者之间的关键区别，正如他对 "上帝的形象 "的阐述所表明的那样。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10058
Pieter L. Rouwendal
Since the concept of synchronic contingency has received attention in historical theology in recent decades, I want to argue in this article that the concept has value for systematic theology as well. I explore the broader consistency of the concept with Reformed theology by relating it to a number of Reformed doctrines, and I check its consistency with Reformed theology by discussing the relevant criticisms and questions raised by Paul Helm.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01702015
Arthur Rankin
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Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01702002
David P. Gushee, A. Lutz
This essay considers the Christian ethical meanings of species loss. We begin with a description of the Dutch colonization of Mauritius, which entailed grave and irreversible species losses that foreshadowed current global realities. Revisiting the Gaia hypothesis, we argue that the whole of creation, including humanity, is interconnected and interdependent, and that it is disastrous when humans ignore our connection to the Earth community. Christians must therefore respond to species loss at theological, ethical, and spiritual levels. The imago dei and the dominion mandate must be construed by Christians to mean responsibility as the most powerful species in the Earth community to offer loving care to the whole of creation. Human responsibility must be highlighted, not archaic understandings of divine power and human weakness. Human connectedness to—rather than alienation from—creation must be nurtured before species loss finally overtakes humanity itself.
{"title":"Reversing the Rain of Death That Threatens Us All","authors":"David P. Gushee, A. Lutz","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay considers the Christian ethical meanings of species loss. We begin with a description of the Dutch colonization of Mauritius, which entailed grave and irreversible species losses that foreshadowed current global realities. Revisiting the Gaia hypothesis, we argue that the whole of creation, including humanity, is interconnected and interdependent, and that it is disastrous when humans ignore our connection to the Earth community. Christians must therefore respond to species loss at theological, ethical, and spiritual levels. The imago dei and the dominion mandate must be construed by Christians to mean responsibility as the most powerful species in the Earth community to offer loving care to the whole of creation. Human responsibility must be highlighted, not archaic understandings of divine power and human weakness. Human connectedness to—rather than alienation from—creation must be nurtured before species loss finally overtakes humanity itself.","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90600046","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 : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01702012
Donald K. Mckim
{"title":"The Ground, Method, and Goal of Amandus Polanus’ (1561–1610) Doctrine of God: A Historical and Contextual Analysis , by Steven B. Tipton","authors":"Donald K. Mckim","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73463051","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 : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01702013
Joshua McQuaid
{"title":"Theology as the Science of God: Herman Bavinck’s Wetenschappelijke Theology for the Modern World , by Ximian Xu","authors":"Joshua McQuaid","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87540423","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 : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01702018
Gert van den Brink
{"title":"The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation , by René van Woudenberg","authors":"Gert van den Brink","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78249568","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 : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01702011
Iris Veerbeek
{"title":"Green Theology. An Eco-Feminist and Ecumenical Perspective , by Trees van Montfoort","authors":"Iris Veerbeek","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77093125","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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