Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01701010
G. Soderberg
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Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01701006
G. Soderberg
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Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01701011
Kees van der Knijff
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Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10040
Sean Luke
How does God ordain creaturely evil while preserving their freedom? In this article, I compare Calvin’s views on God’s relationship to evil with those of the English Reformed. I survey Calvin’s views from his commentaries and the Institutes, arguing that they share several salient features with the views of the English Reformed. However, I also note that the English Reformed more readily use the language of “contingency” and “divine permission” with respect to creaturely evil; this difference is reflected in the language of Westminster, which more closely reflects the language of the English Reformed instead of Calvin.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01604002
D. Harink
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10044
Rinse H. Reeling Brouwer
K.H. Miskotte’s dissertation on The Essence of Judaism (1932) at once involved constructing a phenomenological Wesensschau, preparation for Jewish-Christian encounter, and engagements in intra-Protestant disputes. Around the Second World War, Miskotte’s writings simultaneously showed unconditional solidarity with the persecuted Jewish people and warned against Jewish influences on Protestantism. At the end of his life, Miskotte reflected with distress on the book of Rabbi Ignaz Maybaum, The Face of God after Auschwitz, and he returned to his initial judgment on liberal Judaism.
{"title":"K.H. Miskotte’s Efforts toward a Renewed Relationship with Judaism","authors":"Rinse H. Reeling Brouwer","doi":"10.1163/15697312-bja10044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-bja10044","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 K.H. Miskotte’s dissertation on The Essence of Judaism (1932) at once involved constructing a phenomenological Wesensschau, preparation for Jewish-Christian encounter, and engagements in intra-Protestant disputes. Around the Second World War, Miskotte’s writings simultaneously showed unconditional solidarity with the persecuted Jewish people and warned against Jewish influences on Protestantism. At the end of his life, Miskotte reflected with distress on the book of Rabbi Ignaz Maybaum, The Face of God after Auschwitz, and he returned to his initial judgment on liberal Judaism.","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78685955","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 : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10042
Philip G. Ziegler
Kornelis H. Miskotte's theology generally, and his Biblical ABC s—an important wartime work newly translated into English—in particular represent a welcome provocation to contemporary Christian theology. This essay assesses the key theological claims at the heart of the work, reflects critically upon their meaning and significance, and then draws them into converation with a number of current trends and trajectories in current theological research and writing. In this way, the significance of the work in its own right as well as its—perhaps surprising—relevance to the present theological discussion is brought to light.
Kornelis H. Miskotte的神学理论,尤其是他的《圣经ABC》 s——一部重要的战时著作,新近被翻译成英文——是对当代基督教神学的一种受欢迎的挑衅。这篇文章评估了作品核心的关键神学主张,批判性地反思了它们的意义和重要性,然后将它们与当前神学研究和写作的一些趋势和轨迹进行了对话。通过这种方式,这部作品本身的重要性以及它与当前神学讨论的相关性(也许令人惊讶)被揭示出来。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10041
Niels den Hertog
This article is about the Dutch theologian K.H. Miskotte and his theologically based resistance against the Nazi occupation regime (1940–1945). The leadership in Dutch churches chose a cautious and often unprincipled approach to dealing with the occupier. Miskotte, along with some others, pointed to a different way. He wanted a better resistance, founded in the Bible. He read the Bible as the testimony of the Liberator-God who frees his people from slavery to the gods and powers of this world that blind and enslave people. Miskotte’s book Biblical ABC s, though created under the challenging circumstances of occupation by a Nazi regime, also points the way for today to a way of reading the Bible that is current and surprising.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10043
Mirjam Elbers
K.H. Miskotte’s Bijbels ABC, recently translated into English as Biblical ABC s, resources resistance by carefully reading the Hebrew scriptures. This article argues that the central, defining theme of the book is the focus on the Name YHWH as ‘anti-pagan monument par excellence.’ Paganism for Miskotte does not mean the absence of religion nor a particular, polytheistic religion or worldview, but the natural human inclination to declare the existing order sacred. Humanity is profoundly ‘occupied’ and needs the Word, the Name-in-action, in order to be liberated from pagan, religious occupying forces—whether these forces are political, spiritual, military, economical or linguistic. This focus on the ‘anti-pagan’ stance of the Name determines the entire structure of Biblical ABC s, its method and content.
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