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Full-Text Articles in Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
"You Shall Bear Witness To Me": Thinking With Luther About Christ And The Scriptures, Gary M. Simpson
"You Shall Bear Witness To Me": Thinking With Luther About Christ And The Scriptures, Gary M. Simpson
Faculty Publications
To get Scripture right, we must start with the right questions, as Martin Luther did: What is Scripture for? What is the relation between Christ and Scripture? Between law and gospel? How does the gospel function as promise?
Jesus And The Trinity, Lois E. Malcolm
Jesus And The Trinity, Lois E. Malcolm
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In the New Testament and in the work of contemporary Trinitarian theologians, the experience and power of the Spirit emerge as central features in understanding the relation between the Father and the Son and the meaning of the Trinity.
Im Zeitalter Der Globalisierung Den Dreieinigen Gott Bekennen -- Eine Lutherische Stimme, Guillermo C. Hansen
Im Zeitalter Der Globalisierung Den Dreieinigen Gott Bekennen -- Eine Lutherische Stimme, Guillermo C. Hansen
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No abstract provided.
Reading The Bible After Darwin, Mark A. Throntveit, Alan G. Padgett
Reading The Bible After Darwin, Mark A. Throntveit, Alan G. Padgett
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The historical and scientific accuracy of the biblical witness has become increasingly difficult to maintain in light of the Darwinian revolution. A positive result has been a return to a proper theological reading of Scripture, not as our primary source of technical information but of insight into God’s means of dealing with us and God’s creation.
The Dialectic Of Idolatry And Profanation: On Discerning The Spirit In Congregational Studies, Lois E. Malcolm
The Dialectic Of Idolatry And Profanation: On Discerning The Spirit In Congregational Studies, Lois E. Malcolm
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No abstract provided.
Retrieving Martin Luther's Critical Public Theology Of Political Authority For Global Civil Society Today, Gary M. Simpson
Retrieving Martin Luther's Critical Public Theology Of Political Authority For Global Civil Society Today, Gary M. Simpson
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No abstract provided.
The Trinity In Theology And Philosophy: Why Jerusalem Should Work With Athens, Alan G. Padgett
The Trinity In Theology And Philosophy: Why Jerusalem Should Work With Athens, Alan G. Padgett
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No abstract provided.
Confessions, Ecumenism, Ethnicity: A Lutheran Charism, Dirk G. Lange
Confessions, Ecumenism, Ethnicity: A Lutheran Charism, Dirk G. Lange
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No abstract provided.
Resistance, Adaptation Or Challenge: The Versatility Of The Lutheran Code, Guillermo C. Hansen
Resistance, Adaptation Or Challenge: The Versatility Of The Lutheran Code, Guillermo C. Hansen
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No abstract provided.
The Crucifixion And The Will Of God According To John, Craig R. Koester
The Crucifixion And The Will Of God According To John, Craig R. Koester
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No abstract provided.
My Sinful Self: The Self As Enemy, Steven D. Paulson
My Sinful Self: The Self As Enemy, Steven D. Paulson
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“We have met the enemy, and he is us,” said Pogo. The “us” is our sinful self, which can be disposed of only by dying to faith in our own power to believe and rising to faith as the daily gift of Christ. For this, we need a preacher, the bringer of an external word to which we can cling
Two Kinds Of Authority: Law And Gospel, Steven D. Paulson
Two Kinds Of Authority: Law And Gospel, Steven D. Paulson
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No abstract provided.
Jesus Christ And The Modern Sinner: Karl Barth's Retrieval Of Luther's Substantive Christology, Amy E. Marga
Jesus Christ And The Modern Sinner: Karl Barth's Retrieval Of Luther's Substantive Christology, Amy E. Marga
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No abstract provided.
On Enduring Political Authority: Comparing Oliver O’Donovan And The Book Of Revelation, Aaron Perry
On Enduring Political Authority: Comparing Oliver O’Donovan And The Book Of Revelation, Aaron Perry
Journal for Christian Theological Research
The political thought of Oliver O’Donovan is discussed alongside a key text for his thought, the book of Revelation. Specifically I examine the question of God’s providential relationship to enduring political authority. I suggest that while O’Donovan’s work presents a positive relationship between God’s providence and an enduring political authority, the book of Revelation presents a negative relationship, meaning God keeps at bay the forces that would otherwise destabilize political authority. We begin with an introduction to O’Dovovan and his notion of political authority, which is followed by an inductive study of Revelation. I conclude with a comparison of the …
Creational Ethics Is Public Ethics, Guenther Haas
Creational Ethics Is Public Ethics, Guenther Haas
Journal for Christian Theological Research
This paper presents the framework and key doctrines relevant to public moral engagement as found in the Reformed or neo-Calvinist tradition shaped by Abraham Kuyper and his disciples. My thesis is that Christian ethics is public ethics because it is creational ethics. Christian ethics has a place in the public arena because it is the articulation of the creational moral order that constitutes and guides all human beings. Neo-Calvinism considers the creation order as foundational. The fall of creation and its redemption must be understood in relation to this foundational doctrine. But the creational order also shapes the nature of …
The Wisdom Of Forgiveness: Singing Like Birds In The Cage With Old King Lear, Janet L. Ramsey, Alan G. Padgett
The Wisdom Of Forgiveness: Singing Like Birds In The Cage With Old King Lear, Janet L. Ramsey, Alan G. Padgett
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Learning to forgive and to be forgiven is a lifelong curriculum from which we never really graduate. Shakespeare’s King Lear can be one guide in this educational process.
"God Is A God Who Bears": Bonhoeffer For A Flat World, Gary M. Simpson
"God Is A God Who Bears": Bonhoeffer For A Flat World, Gary M. Simpson
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This is one of a series of articles in Word & World commemorating the 100th birthday of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer learned in his own time of crisis that “only the suffering God can help.” As God bears us in Christ, we are given the possibility of bearing the burdens of our brothers and sisters.
Reexamining Relational Youth Ministry: Implications From The Theology Of Bonhoeffer, Andrew Root
Reexamining Relational Youth Ministry: Implications From The Theology Of Bonhoeffer, Andrew Root
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Youth ministry often focuses on building relationships between youth ministers and adolescents. But to what end? A relationship designed to influence the other is no relationship and is unworthy of Christ. In a true relationship Christians must be willing fully to share the place of another.
The Canonical Sense Of Scripture: Trinitarian Or Christocentric?, Alan G. Padgett
The Canonical Sense Of Scripture: Trinitarian Or Christocentric?, Alan G. Padgett
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In this essay I develop a threefold sense for Scripture today: conventional, canonical, and contemporary. This is my “grammar” for evangelical theological hermeneutics. I explore in particular the canonical sense: the level of meaning of the biblical passage read in the light of the whole of Scripture, with Christ as the center and key. In dialogue with the Orthodox, I argue that such a christocentric approach must also be, finally, a Trinitarian one.
The Relationship Between Theology And Philosophy: Constructing A Christian Worldview, Alan G. Padgett
The Relationship Between Theology And Philosophy: Constructing A Christian Worldview, Alan G. Padgett
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No abstract provided.
Biblical Truth And Theological Education: A Rhetorical Strategy, Patrick R. Keifert
Biblical Truth And Theological Education: A Rhetorical Strategy, Patrick R. Keifert
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No abstract provided.
A New Heaven And A New Earth: The Case For A Holistic Reading Of The Biblical Story Of Redemption, J. Richard Middleton
A New Heaven And A New Earth: The Case For A Holistic Reading Of The Biblical Story Of Redemption, J. Richard Middleton
Journal for Christian Theological Research
Many Christian voices have proposed that the eternal destiny of the redeemed consists not in a disembodied heaven hereafter, but in the resurrection of the body in the context of a new earth. This paper explores the theological—and especially the exegetical—case for a consistent understanding of redemption as the restoration of God’s creational intent, such that the appropriate hope for the redeemed is life in a renewed earthly creation. The inner theological logic of this position is explored through an integrated reading of the plot structure of the entire biblical metanarrative and by attending to representative New Testament texts that …
“At The Same Time Blessed And Lame”: Ontology, Christology And Violence In Augustine And John Milbank, Elizabeth Agnew Cochran
“At The Same Time Blessed And Lame”: Ontology, Christology And Violence In Augustine And John Milbank, Elizabeth Agnew Cochran
Journal for Christian Theological Research
In Being Reconciled, John Milbank affirms the necessity of Christ’s atonement for human redemption. Yet his Christological claims are undercut by the ontology that undergirds the narrative he puts forth in Theology and Social Theory. This narrative depends upon the premise that a denial of a positive ontological status for violence lies at the heart of Christianity. A comparison of Theology and Social Theory to Augustine’s The City of God demonstrates that Augustine accepts a form of dialectical ontology that Milbank rejects, and that this dialectical ontology undergirds Augustine’s Christology in crucial ways. Although the differences between Milbank’s …
Karl Barth Having No-Thing To Hope For, John C. Mcdowell
Karl Barth Having No-Thing To Hope For, John C. Mcdowell
Journal for Christian Theological Research
Barth's work on eschatology certainly deserves more critical prominence than it has frequently been given. He encourages theologians to think much more carefully about what it is to hope as a Christian, or, better, as one whose determination and responsibility are ecclesially learned and performed in witness to God’s coming in Jesus Christ. The challenge that his material puts to much that passes for Christian talk of hope is pronounced and radical. In particular, he challenges the very kind objectivity of hope that makes what Christians hope for just another object; and in so doing, although I will focus …
Practical Theology As Social Ethical Action In Christian Ministry: Implications From Emmanuel Levinas And Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Andrew Root
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No abstract provided.
The Augustinian Imperfection: Faith, Christ, And Imputation And Its Role In The Ecumenical Discussion Of Justification, Steven D. Paulson
The Augustinian Imperfection: Faith, Christ, And Imputation And Its Role In The Ecumenical Discussion Of Justification, Steven D. Paulson
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No abstract provided.
"I Am The Truth": An Understanding Of Truth From Christology For Scripture, Alan G. Padgett
"I Am The Truth": An Understanding Of Truth From Christology For Scripture, Alan G. Padgett
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No abstract provided.
Hope In The Face Of Empire: Failed Patriotism, Civil International Publicity, And Patriotic Peacebuilding, Gary M. Simpson
Hope In The Face Of Empire: Failed Patriotism, Civil International Publicity, And Patriotic Peacebuilding, Gary M. Simpson
Faculty Publications
The patriotism of empire is a failed patriotism that longs for empire as the way to achieve security. America needs instead a repenting patriotism, in the tradition of Lincoln, that recognizes public accountability and moves toward peacebuilding.
God Is A God Who Bears: Intensifying Schroeder's Critique Of Barth By Way Of Bonhoeffer's Confession Of Christ, Gary M. Simpson
God Is A God Who Bears: Intensifying Schroeder's Critique Of Barth By Way Of Bonhoeffer's Confession Of Christ, Gary M. Simpson
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No abstract provided.
Trinity, Time And Sacrament: Christ's Eucharistic Presence In The Theology Of Robert W. Jenson, Jason M. Curtis
Trinity, Time And Sacrament: Christ's Eucharistic Presence In The Theology Of Robert W. Jenson, Jason M. Curtis
Journal for Christian Theological Research
A critical analysis of some key elements in Jenson’s theology. Some of his most stimulating theological themes are those surrounding his trinitarian ontology, where he combines a thoroughgoing knowledge of the tradition with biblical exegesis and philosophical reasoning. What emerges is a trinitarian theology dominated by the concern to overcome any vestige of divine timelessness and replace it with a biblical doctrine of the God who is temporal, yet overcomes temporal contingencies. The manner in which he does this is to link the divine identities with the temporal “moments,” and by maintaining the priority of the future over the past. …