Pub Date : 2021-12-07DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01504008
R. J. Balfour
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Pub Date : 2021-12-07DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01503013
Ximian Xu
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Pub Date : 2021-12-07DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01503007
Michael Allen
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Pub Date : 2021-12-07DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10016
R. Roukema
The theme of this article arises from Reformed theology, namely, how did authoritative Christian authors of the second to the fifth centuries AD think about salvation by Christ’s substitutionary and atoning death? How do their views relate to the ‘Christus Victor’ theology that is sometimes propagated nowadays as a more biblical alternative to the traditional Reformed soteriology, and which is considered the dominant approach in the ancient church? Can traces of Christ giving ‘satisfaction’ for God’s offended honor or for his wrath against sin be found in the first centuries? Did any church fathers hold that Christ vicariously bore God’s punishment for the sins of humankind? What was meant by the ransom that Christ had to pay, and to whom did he pay it: to God or to the devil, or were these considered invidious alternatives? This article demonstrates that in their interpretations of biblical texts, the church fathers did indeed address most of these questions. However, a continuous debate on such questions remained, so that the church of those centuries did not create a standard doctrine about the rationale of salvation by Christ, which testifies to varied understandings of it.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-07DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01503010
Barry Ensign-George
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Pub Date : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10018
Ton van Eijk
The starting point of this article is a text of Irenaeus in defense of the resurrection of the body against the Gnostics. In the very different context of the zweiter Abendmahlsstreit in the 16th century this text was part of a dossier of Patristic texts that was used by both parties, Lutheran and Reformed. One of the issues was whether the body of Christ was eaten by the mouth or by faith. It will be shown how Calvin and Heshusius understood this text. In the end it will appear that for various reasons the issue seems to have lost its relevance. With the Leuenberg Agreement the dispute was laid to rest.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10017
Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, Collin Cornell
This article is an English translation of an essay originally published in the journal Zeitschrift für dialektische Theologie in 1989. In it, Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt revisits Karl Barth’s proposal in § 23 of Church Dogmatics that ‘biblical attitude’ is the first among several norms for Christian dogmatics. The article compares Barth’s emphasis on the ‘biblical formfulness’ of theology with the program of the Dutch Reformed theologian K.H. Miskotte, which seeks to educate Christians in the ‘iconic language’ of Scripture. It argues that Miskotte is concerned with hermeneutics in such a way that “Rudolf Bultmann’s name belongs—maybe before Barth’s—in proximity to Miskotte’s.” In contrast to Bultmann, however, Miskotte aims at teaching a language and generating speech rather than catalyzing self-understanding.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01503005
Ximian Xu
{"title":"Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics, by Joshua Mauldin","authors":"Ximian Xu","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01503005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01503005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82394547","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 : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10019
J. Abrahamse
This article is concerned with the theological implications of God’s laughter as pictured in Psalm 2:4 in view of sketching a basic comic theology proper. Since laughter is conceived by some as an overwhelming human emotion, divine laughter can be problematic. To make its case for a comic theology proper, the biblical scholarship with regard to Psalm 2 is first explored in order to establish the psalm’s content, then the current debate on im/passibility is explored to determine what is at stake in attributing emotions to God. Subsequently, the reading strategies of both analytic and narrative theology are followed to assess the theological implications of divine laughter in Psalm 2. It is concluded that divine laughter can be proper to God as an affectionate act to bring justice and reconciliation on earth.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10015
C. Holmes
Calvin’s commentarial engagement with Acts makes an important contribution to understanding providence. This is, I argue, the case with respect to the important distinction between divine determination and divine permission. In this article, I unfold how the language of divine determination refers to what is true of God in a substantial sense. God’s determination reflects what God is in se. The language of permission, however, pertains only to evil. Such an inquiry advances systematic thinking on providence, encouraging recognition of how determination and permission have different referents. ‘Determination’ refers to what is of God, ‘permission’ to what is evil. The article also contributes to Calvin scholarship by showing how Calvin’s encounter with Acts generates a more expansive account of providential themes than one finds in the Institutes.
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