Pub Date : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10026
Michael V. Flowers
Although the “theonomy” debate has largely subsided, it continues to be espoused by a vocal minority because it was never properly addressed. The key issue is not whether the judicial laws are still binding. These laws are grounded in God’s moral character; hence, they are still binding. But since they were enforced by magistrates who worked in conjunction with Levitical priests in the context of a now-defunct priesthood, today’s magistrates would lack the divine guidance and authority to enforce the judicial laws as was once prescribed. A conceptual distinction should therefore be drawn between moral/judicial laws and their legal enforcement in society.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10027
Alden C. McCray
This article contrasts two approaches to the via negativa in the work of Colin Gunton and John Calvin. After examining Gunton’s allegation that unbiblical causal and hierarchical commitments within the negative way describe God by projecting the negation of creaturely attributes, it argues that the scriptural exegesis of John Calvin illuminates some of the shortcomings of these critiques. Calvin’s close engagement with scriptural texts about divine alterity demonstrates how the via negativa may be a form of biblical reasoning and highlights the utility of exegesis for discerning the biblical logic of traditional modes of divine naming.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01601005
Thomas Haviland-Pabst
{"title":"John Davenant’s Hypothetical Universalism: A Defense of Catholic and Reformed Orthodoxy, by Michael J. Lynch","authors":"Thomas Haviland-Pabst","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01601005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01601005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89377128","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 : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10028
D. Pedersen, Christopher Lilley
Proponents of the modal collapse argument claim that divine simplicity, traditionally conceived, contradicts other Christian commitments about divine freedom and grace by ultimately rendering all God’s acts, including creation and redemption, absolutely necessary. If true, the argument goes, theologians must abandon either God’s simplicity or God’s freedom. The aim of this dilemma is to force the abandonment of simplicity. However, we argue that the modal collapse argument is insufficient to generate this dilemma apart from additional premises—and that these tacit premises are the true locus of dispute.
{"title":"Divine Simplicity, God’s Freedom, and the Supposed Problem of Modal Collapse","authors":"D. Pedersen, Christopher Lilley","doi":"10.1163/15697312-bja10028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-bja10028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Proponents of the modal collapse argument claim that divine simplicity, traditionally conceived, contradicts other Christian commitments about divine freedom and grace by ultimately rendering all God’s acts, including creation and redemption, absolutely necessary. If true, the argument goes, theologians must abandon either God’s simplicity or God’s freedom. The aim of this dilemma is to force the abandonment of simplicity. However, we argue that the modal collapse argument is insufficient to generate this dilemma apart from additional premises—and that these tacit premises are the true locus of dispute.","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"168 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76765252","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 : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01601007
Phillip A. Hussey
with the remaining three in German (with no English summary). English-speaking scholars will find this exposure to European research stimulating and refreshing. It will broaden the horizons of those who concentrate on the British Isles, reminding them of the pan-European dimension of the Reformation and its origins in what was then the Holy Roman Empire. Unfortunately, the quality of the English tends to suffer from the fact that most of the contributors are writing in a foreign language, and the editors would have done well to employ a native English-speaker as a copy editor, who could have smoothed out the style here and there and made the texts easier to read. The effort is certainly worthwhile and this volume will be an important addition to library collections everywhere.
{"title":"The Covenant of Works: The Origins, Development, and Reception of the Doctrine, by J.V. Fesko","authors":"Phillip A. Hussey","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01601007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01601007","url":null,"abstract":"with the remaining three in German (with no English summary). English-speaking scholars will find this exposure to European research stimulating and refreshing. It will broaden the horizons of those who concentrate on the British Isles, reminding them of the pan-European dimension of the Reformation and its origins in what was then the Holy Roman Empire. Unfortunately, the quality of the English tends to suffer from the fact that most of the contributors are writing in a foreign language, and the editors would have done well to employ a native English-speaker as a copy editor, who could have smoothed out the style here and there and made the texts easier to read. The effort is certainly worthwhile and this volume will be an important addition to library collections everywhere.","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81956228","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 : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01601003
R. Earnshaw
{"title":"A Companion to the Theology of John Webster, by Michael Allen and R. David Nelson, editors","authors":"R. Earnshaw","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01601003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01601003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88293582","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 : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10023
Toni C Saad
In contrast to much contemporary Reformed and broader evangelical theology, Francis Turretin, the great Genevan theologian of High Orthodoxy, considers natural law in favorable terms, notably under Topic 11 of his Institutes of Elenctic Theology. This essay offers an exposition of Turretin’s account of natural law and compares it to that of Thomas Aquinas. It is shown that there is substantial agreement between Turretin and Aquinas on the notion and content of natural law, despite their different approaches to the subject. This conclusion supports ongoing efforts to reevaluate and reappropriate natural law and Thomism in Reformed theology.
与许多当代改革宗和更广泛的福音派神学不同，伟大的日内瓦高正统神学家弗朗西斯·特雷丁(Francis Turretin)对自然法持赞成态度，尤其是在他的《埃伦神学研究所》(Institutes of Elenctic theology)的第11篇中。这篇文章阐述了杜雷坦关于自然法的观点，并将其与托马斯·阿奎那的观点进行了比较。图列廷和阿奎那对自然法的概念和内容有着实质性的一致，尽管他们对自然法的研究方法不同。这个结论支持了对改革宗神学中自然法和托马斯主义进行重新评估和重新利用的持续努力。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01601004
Thomas Haviland-Pabst
{"title":"Contemplating God with the Great Tradition: Recovering Trinitarian Classical Theism, by Craig A. Carter","authors":"Thomas Haviland-Pabst","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01601004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01601004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84968739","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 : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01601002
Forrest H. Buckner
{"title":"T.F. Torrance as Missional Theologian: The Ascended Christ and the Ministry of the Church, by Joseph H. Sherrard","authors":"Forrest H. Buckner","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01601002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01601002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88896060","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 : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10022
Alex R. Wendel
In this article I first provide an overview of the ways in which trauma impacts people’s understandings and experiences of God, then survey two works of “trauma-informed theology” to demonstrate how these approaches to theology can lead to diminished views of God and turn theology into anthropology, and, finally, propose an approach to trauma and theology that maintains a theocentric theological method that affirms the subjective experiences of traumatized individuals while not advancing diminished understandings of God. It is the triune God revealed in Scripture that wipes away the tears of trauma survivors and this God alone who comforts and heals humanity.
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