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Daunting, Indeed! A Critical Conversation With The Promise Of Lutheran Ethics, Gary M. Simpson
Daunting, Indeed! A Critical Conversation With The Promise Of Lutheran Ethics, Gary M. Simpson
Faculty Publications
The seven essayists in The Promise of Lutheran Ethics provide material for a fruitful conversation with the reviewer, which in turn provides food for thought for readers of the volume and the review.
Unwelcome Words From The Lord: Isaiah's Messages, Rolf A. Jacobson
Unwelcome Words From The Lord: Isaiah's Messages, Rolf A. Jacobson
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Isaiah’s word of the Lord, even a positive word, often received an unwelcome reception. God’s promises, then and now, can be unwelcome because they warn against trusting any other promise.
Author's Response To James J. Buckley, Henry H. Knight Iii
Author's Response To James J. Buckley, Henry H. Knight Iii
Journal for Christian Theological Research
A response to James J. Buckley's review of A Future for Truth: Evangelical Theology in a Postmodern World.
Beyond Evangelical Theology's Scholasticism And Pietism? A Review Of A Future For Truth: Evangelical Theology In A Postmodern World, By Henry H. Knight Iii, James J. Buckley
Beyond Evangelical Theology's Scholasticism And Pietism? A Review Of A Future For Truth: Evangelical Theology In A Postmodern World, By Henry H. Knight Iii, James J. Buckley
Journal for Christian Theological Research
A review of A Future for Truth: Evangelical Theology in a Postmodern World by Henry H. Knight III.
Have We Need Of Invoking Postmodernity? Identity And Difference In Theological Discourse, Jeffrey Bloechl
Have We Need Of Invoking Postmodernity? Identity And Difference In Theological Discourse, Jeffrey Bloechl
Journal for Christian Theological Research
While the term "postmodernity" remains vague or equivocal, theologians increasingly concede that it is one which they can not avoid trying to understand and deal with. One definition of the term proceeds by way of sharp contrast with specific features of modernity, thus clearly distinguishing postmodernity from even late modernity. The key to this distinction seems to be a particular conception of "difference" which is worked out rigorously in Heidegger's, "The Principle of Identity." Proceeding from Heidegger's claim to think difference anterior to identity, postmodernity is then presented here as the source of considerable difficulty to a theology which would …
God, Christ, And All Things In 1 Corinthians 15:28, David E. Fredrickson
God, Christ, And All Things In 1 Corinthians 15:28, David E. Fredrickson
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God's becoming "all in all" requires neither God's absolute sovereignty over all things nor the absorption of God into creation. In the New Testament, as in trinitarian theology, it is better understood as a way to speak of a personal relation between Creator and creation and between the Father and the Son.
The Trinity And Congregational Planning: Between Historical Minimum And Eschatological Maximum, Patrick R. Keifert
The Trinity And Congregational Planning: Between Historical Minimum And Eschatological Maximum, Patrick R. Keifert
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Most members of congregations are inattentive to both the past and the future of their congregation. They live in a very present now. An adequate doctrine of the Trinity can liberate congregations from this imprisonment in the present; it will call for visioning and planning in congregational life.
No Trinity, No Mission: The Apostolic Difference Of Revisioning The Trinity, Gary M. Simpson
No Trinity, No Mission: The Apostolic Difference Of Revisioning The Trinity, Gary M. Simpson
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Moral and experiential monotheism, twin bequests of the enlightenment, have robbed recent doctrines of God of an essential apostolic difference. A revisioned formulation of the Trinity will provide good news for the modern world.
Confessing Jesus As Lord: Selected Epistles (Epiphany To Palm Sunday), David E. Fredrickson
Confessing Jesus As Lord: Selected Epistles (Epiphany To Palm Sunday), David E. Fredrickson
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No abstract provided.
The Christian Communio And The Question Of Identity, Guillermo C. Hansen
The Christian Communio And The Question Of Identity, Guillermo C. Hansen
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No abstract provided.
Freedom And Truth In Veritatis Splendor And The Meaning Of Theonomy, Lois E. Malcolm
Freedom And Truth In Veritatis Splendor And The Meaning Of Theonomy, Lois E. Malcolm
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No abstract provided.
The Rebirth Of Luther's Two Kingdoms In Kant's Commonwealths, Mark Wilms
The Rebirth Of Luther's Two Kingdoms In Kant's Commonwealths, Mark Wilms
Journal for Christian Theological Research
To most people acquainted with Immanuel Kant and Martin Luther, their differences in philosophical and religious outlook prevent comparison on most levels. Nevertheless, it is in the idea of two realms of spiritual or moral renewal that they begin to speak similar language. More specifically, Luther's description of Christians living in two kingdoms, living the spiritual life of faith alongside their imperfections in daily life, is echoed in Kant's notion of the ethical and political commonwealths, where a society of people ruled by morality is put alongside the political realm where these same people must be ruled by law. Like …
The Logic Of Theodicy: A Comparative Analysis, David Basinger, Randall Basinger
The Logic Of Theodicy: A Comparative Analysis, David Basinger, Randall Basinger
Journal for Christian Theological Research
The purpose of this essay is to compare how three theistic perspectives -- theological determinism, freewill theism and process theism -- do (in fact, must) approach the reality of evil in this world and then reflect on whether any of these approaches (theodicies) can be judged superior to the others. We conclude that, while a person can justifiably maintain for herself that one of these responses to evil is superior, there exists at present no objective basis for claiming justifiably that any one of the theodicies (and thus theisms) is in fact more plausible than the others. However, even if …
The Relationship Between Incarnation And Atonement In The Theology Of Thomas F. Torrance, Gunther Pratz
The Relationship Between Incarnation And Atonement In The Theology Of Thomas F. Torrance, Gunther Pratz
Journal for Christian Theological Research
Thomas F. Torrance's understanding of the relationship between incarnation and atonement is deeply shaped by his understanding of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed and Greek patristic theology, particularly that of Athanasius. The soteriological emphasis of Nicene theology and the soteriological orientation of Athanasius in his whole approach to the doctrine of the Son and his cosubstantial relation to the Father are central points in Torrance's Christology. He gives a supreme place to the Nicene homoousion and interpreting from this foundation he sees atonement as taking place within the incarnate being of Jesus Christ. An examination of the modes of atoning redemption which …
Neither Euphoria Nor Defeatism: Christian Ethical Considerations On The New Epochal Changes In Latin America, Guillermo C. Hansen
Neither Euphoria Nor Defeatism: Christian Ethical Considerations On The New Epochal Changes In Latin America, Guillermo C. Hansen
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No abstract provided.
Pauline Ethics: Congregations As Communities Of Moral Deliberation, David E. Fredrickson
Pauline Ethics: Congregations As Communities Of Moral Deliberation, David E. Fredrickson
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No abstract provided.
Lutherans In The United States, 1930-1960: Searching For The "Center", Mark A. Granquist
Lutherans In The United States, 1930-1960: Searching For The "Center", Mark A. Granquist
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No abstract provided.
The Congregation: Critical Location For Faith And The Other, Patrick R. Keifert
The Congregation: Critical Location For Faith And The Other, Patrick R. Keifert
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No abstract provided.
Eucharistic Symbolism In The Gospel Of John, David E. Fredrickson
Eucharistic Symbolism In The Gospel Of John, David E. Fredrickson
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A metaphorical reading of eating Jesus’ flesh in John 6 is insufficient. It keeps the reader from seeing the connection between Jesus’ self-giving and his divinity; it does not reckon with the communication of divinity to communicants; it does not allow for our participation in the life of God through the ascent of the incarnate Word.
Promise And Warning: The Lord's Supper In 1 Corinthians, Craig R. Koester
Promise And Warning: The Lord's Supper In 1 Corinthians, Craig R. Koester
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There is a yes and a no in Paul's understanding of the Lord's supper—a yes to life and promise and Christ, a no to sin and death and other religious claims. A biblically based participation in communion will hear both with equal clarity.
The Chronicler's Speeches And Historical Reconstruction, Mark A. Throntveit
The Chronicler's Speeches And Historical Reconstruction, Mark A. Throntveit
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No abstract provided.
The Idealization Of Solomon As The Glorification Of God In The Chronicler's Royal Speeches And Royal Prayers, Mark A. Throntveit
The Idealization Of Solomon As The Glorification Of God In The Chronicler's Royal Speeches And Royal Prayers, Mark A. Throntveit
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No abstract provided.
In The Company Of Hauerwas, Max L. Stackhouse
In The Company Of Hauerwas, Max L. Stackhouse
Journal for Christian Theological Research
This critical response to Stanley Hauerwas' work, especially as found in his recent book, In Good Company, raises questions about the nature and character of Christian Ethics. For instance, it doubts that a tradition so closely linked with Israel as Christianity must be, can so easily dismiss principles of right and wrong (cf. the Torah). Furthermore, one must question whether we should be so confident of the human capacity to cultivate virtues by habituation to overcome evil, or so doubtful of the capacities for humans to carry on commensurable discourse about serious matters between contexts. Still, there are areas …
Apocalypticism And Modern Thinking, Thomas J. J. Altizer
Apocalypticism And Modern Thinking, Thomas J. J. Altizer
Journal for Christian Theological Research
This article seeks to draw forth the deeply apocalyptic ground of a uniquely modern thinking, which it attempts to understand as a rebirth of an original Christian apocalypticism. Such a ground is already manifest in the birth of modern science, and in the advent of a new and dichotomous interiority, one decisively present in Cartestian thinking and in German Idealism, and which in Hegel evolves into a fully apocalyptic systematic thinking. But modern apocalyptic thinking is grounded in a uniquely modern realization of the death of God, which can be understood as a conceptual realization of the crucifixion, as the …
Called Back To Stewardship: Recovering And Developing Abraham Kuyper's Cosmic Pneumatology, Vincent Bacote
Called Back To Stewardship: Recovering And Developing Abraham Kuyper's Cosmic Pneumatology, Vincent Bacote
Journal for Christian Theological Research
Abraham Kuyper's cosmic pneumatology provides an indispenable resource for the contemporary systematic development of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Though contemporary scholars have attended to this neglected aspect of pneumatology, there has been inadequate development of the ecological, cultural, and sociopolitical implications of the relation between the Spirit and creation. In Kuyper's cosmic pneumatology, the Spirit completes the creative act, animates all of life, and restrains the effects of sin in the world. This understanding of the Spirit/creation relationship overlaps with Kuyper's understanding of common grace, thus making the Spirit the agent of common grace. This grace provides the …
Advice For Religious Historians: On The Myth Of A Purely Historical Jesus, Alan G. Padgett
Advice For Religious Historians: On The Myth Of A Purely Historical Jesus, Alan G. Padgett
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No abstract provided.
No Noose Is Good News: Leadership As A Theological Problem In The Corinthian Correspondence, David E. Fredrickson
No Noose Is Good News: Leadership As A Theological Problem In The Corinthian Correspondence, David E. Fredrickson
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The role of the leader implied by Paul’s Corinthian letters is to prepare persons for public participation in the gathered community. Paul portrays himself as the community’s slave, who thus makes others free for political participation.
The Nrsv: All Things To All People, Mark A. Throntveit
The Nrsv: All Things To All People, Mark A. Throntveit
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No abstract provided.
A Response To Elmer Colyer, Donald G. Bloesch
A Response To Elmer Colyer, Donald G. Bloesch
Journal for Christian Theological Research
Colyer pinpoints a major issue that emerges in my discussion of theological authority. While God can be known only through God, are there not creaturely structures that carry the message of God's salvation? Reformed theology has traditionally emphasized the incapacity of the finite to bear the infinite, but this needs to be counterbalanced by the recognition that the infinite is capable of the finit. The finite cannot in and of itself carry the infinite, but the infinite can use the finite to reveal itself. By the power of the Spirit the gospel can enter creaturely structures and thereby make them …
A Theology Of Word And Spirit: Donald Bloesch's Theological Method, Elmer M. Colyer
A Theology Of Word And Spirit: Donald Bloesch's Theological Method, Elmer M. Colyer
Journal for Christian Theological Research
One of the distinctive characteristics of Donald G. Bloesch's evangelical theology is his theological method. Bloesch proposes "a theology of Word and Spirit" in which the action of the Spirit brings the Word of God (Jesus Christ) present, yet hidden, in Scripture to light so that people hear and respond in faith. The Spirit is given the primary role in forging a conjunction between the human and historical words of Bible and divine revelation never at human disposal. The rigorous application of this theme leads to characteristic reformulations of various elements in Bloesch's theological method including revelation, Scripture, hermeneutics, authority, …