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The Obedience Of Faith: Barth, Bultmann And Dei Verbum, Daniel Gallagher Jan 2005

The Obedience Of Faith: Barth, Bultmann And Dei Verbum, Daniel Gallagher

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The Catholic formulation of "faith" as expressed in Dei Verbum owes much to the influence of Protestant theologians such as Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann. Dei Verbum offers the Pauline phrase "obedience of faith" (Romans 1:5 and 16:26) as constitutive for understanding the relationship between the believer and the God who reveals himself in Jesus Christ. This essay examines the obediential dynamic of faith as developed in the exegetical, theological, and ethical work of Barth and Bultmann, demonstrating how the biblical and personalist dimensions of faith implicit in paragraph 5 of Dei Verbum, to a large degree, find their inspiration …

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Eating, Drinking, Sending: Reflections On The Juxtaposition Of Law And Event In The Eucharist, Dirk G. Lange Jan 2005

Eating, Drinking, Sending: Reflections On The Juxtaposition Of Law And Event In The Eucharist, Dirk G. Lange

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¿Casus Confessionus? La Globalización Neoliberal Y Nuestra Confesión De Fe, Guillermo C. Hansen Jan 2004

¿Casus Confessionus? La Globalización Neoliberal Y Nuestra Confesión De Fe, Guillermo C. Hansen

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He Ascended Into Heaven And Is Seated At The Right Hand Of God The Father Almighty, Lois E. Malcolm Jan 2004

He Ascended Into Heaven And Is Seated At The Right Hand Of God The Father Almighty, Lois E. Malcolm

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Practices, Core Practices And The Work Of The Holy Spirit, David L. Stubbs Jan 2004

Practices, Core Practices And The Work Of The Holy Spirit, David L. Stubbs

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The recent interest in "practices" has created a multi-faceted discussion in theological circles that brings together insights from many disciplines such as ethics, philosophy, and cultural anthropology. However, there has been little extended analysis about how the many claims made about practices are related to quite similar claims traditionally made about the work of the Holy Spirit. In this paper, four distinctions are highlighted that can help us better conceptualize how the Holy Spirit might be related to different kinds of practices.

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The Death Of Jesus And The Truth Of The Triune God In Wolfhart Pannenberg And Eberhard Juengel, Jonathan P. Case Jan 2004

The Death Of Jesus And The Truth Of The Triune God In Wolfhart Pannenberg And Eberhard Juengel, Jonathan P. Case

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For Pannenberg and Juengel the death of Christ has an integral role to play in instantiating in the life of God the critical moment necessary to their respective conceptions of truth. For Pannenberg a claim's capacity for truth lies in its ability to be disputed. Confirmation must follow if a claim is to be judged true, but even this confirmation is open to subsequent challenge. Truth is hence a historical process, only the end of which will bring about a definitive conclusion. Given this understanding of truth, the death of Christ on the cross is to be understood as a …

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El Uso Político De La Cruz: Poder Y Contra-Poder En La 'Theologia Crucis' De Lutero, Guillermo C. Hansen Jan 2004

El Uso Político De La Cruz: Poder Y Contra-Poder En La 'Theologia Crucis' De Lutero, Guillermo C. Hansen

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Songs In A New Key: The Psalmic Structure Of The Chronicler's Hymn (1 Chr 16:8-36), Mark A. Throntveit Jan 2003

Songs In A New Key: The Psalmic Structure Of The Chronicler's Hymn (1 Chr 16:8-36), Mark A. Throntveit

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The Trinity And The Freedom Of God, Paul D. Molnar Jan 2003

The Trinity And The Freedom Of God, Paul D. Molnar

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One of the most serious problems facing contemporary Trinitarian theology concerns the extent to which terms we use in ordinary parlance can be used to describe God and God's relations with us in history. This article argues that a contemporary doctrine of the immanent Trinity should help theologians recognize and respect the freedom of the triune God as the basis of human freedom. By allowing our concept of God to be shaped by who God is in Christ and the Spirit we would exclude any agnosticism with respect to the eternal Trinity and would not define God by our experiences …

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He Takes Back The Ticket . . . For Us: Providence, Evil, Suffering, And The Vicarious Humanity Of Christ, Christian Kettler Jan 2003

He Takes Back The Ticket . . . For Us: Providence, Evil, Suffering, And The Vicarious Humanity Of Christ, Christian Kettler

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The existence of evil and suffering is one of the great challenges to belief in a good and all-powerful God. How can we believe in all honesty? Building upon Karl Barth's argument that providence should proceed from Christology, this article considers the biblical emphasis of what T.F. Torrance has called the vicarious humanity of Christ. This means that Christ in his humanity believes when we find it difficult, if not impossible, to believe, especially when it comes to facing human suffering. Jesus lived a life of perfect faith in, worship of, and service to the Father, even at the cross, …

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Claiming Jesus As Savior In A Religiously Plural World, Gabriel Fackre Jan 2003

Claiming Jesus As Savior In A Religiously Plural World, Gabriel Fackre

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Taking up the bold claim for the universal significance of christological particularity, this essay begins with a brief description of a range of contemporary perspectives on the relation of Jesus Christ to religious pluralism, using a ten-fold taxonomy rather than the popular but inadequate pluralism/inclusivism/exclusivism formula. Current perspectives are identified as: common core, common quest, common community, common pool, common range (all variations on a pluralist approach); anonymous particularity, revelatory particularity, imperial particularity, pluralist particularity and narrative particularity as types giving pride of place to Christian singularity. The heart of the paper is an exposition of the tenth perspective, a …

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Liturgical Hospitality: Theological Refl Ections On Sharing In Grace, Hans Boersma Jan 2003

Liturgical Hospitality: Theological Refl Ections On Sharing In Grace, Hans Boersma

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This essay looks at the Church's liturgy using the metaphor of hospitality. The following assumptions will guide its development: (1) that the Church's practice of hospitality is both a reflection and an extension of God's own hospitality (Reinhard Huetter); (2) that there is a participatory identity between Christ and the Church, with this connection implying that liturgical hospitality forms the primary shape of God's gracious hospitality in our world, specifically as that hospitality is mediated by the Church through the preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments; (3) that liturgical hospitality cannot function properly without regard for …

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Conversion, Conversation, And Acts 15, Lois E. Malcolm Jul 2002

Conversion, Conversation, And Acts 15, Lois E. Malcolm

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Conversion and conversation converge in the light of trinitarian theology and in the book of Acts. The point of our moving beyond Jerusalem, of our outreach, is not to make others like ourselves, but to participate in an event that calls everyone involved out of themselves into something new and larger than themselves.

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Sobre Universos Y Teologías: Schleiermacher Y La Cuestión Cosmológica, Guillermo C. Hansen Jan 2002

Sobre Universos Y Teologías: Schleiermacher Y La Cuestión Cosmológica, Guillermo C. Hansen

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Divine Foreknowledge And The Arrow Of Time: On The Impossibility Of Retrocausation, Alan G. Padgett Jan 2002

Divine Foreknowledge And The Arrow Of Time: On The Impossibility Of Retrocausation, Alan G. Padgett

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Theology As Worship: The Place Of Theology In A Postmodern University, Alan G. Padgett Jan 2002

Theology As Worship: The Place Of Theology In A Postmodern University, Alan G. Padgett

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Law And The Danger Of Freedom, Steven D. Paulson Jul 2001

Law And The Danger Of Freedom, Steven D. Paulson

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Proposing a “third use of the law”—a law for Christians after faith—arises from a fear of freedom. It is finally a christological problem, since Christ put an end to the law not only in himself but also in us.

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The Remnant Church, Randall Otto Jan 2001

The Remnant Church, Randall Otto

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The invisible church idea is an apologetic device developed by the Reformers to comply with the creeds’ statements concerning a “catholic church” and is based on a conception of individual election that itself may need revision. The Reformed doctrine of an invisible church has no basis in the OT or NT, for in both it is those who unite and persevere in faithful obedience with God through his mediator in the covenant community who are saved. The invisible church should thus be replaced with remnant church, for the remnant is the ecclesiola in ecclesia which public demonstrates election in saving …

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The Doctrine Of The Trinity In John Wesley’S Prose And Poetic Works, Seng-Kong Tan Jan 2001

The Doctrine Of The Trinity In John Wesley’S Prose And Poetic Works, Seng-Kong Tan

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One may easily judge John Wesley’s pietistic and anti-rationalistic Christianity to be an encumbrance toward a well-developed doctrine of the Trinity. That Wesley produced very limited systematic treatment on the subject augments the assumption that his theology, though implicitly trinitarian in general is, nonetheless, superficial in its ontology, and thereby, tends toward a subjective functionalism. This essay argues against such a pre-understanding, and appeals for an “organic” appreciation of John Wesley’s broad body of prose and poetical works, in order to recognize the solid doctrine of the immanent Trinity that is foundational to his soteriology. As a judicious editor of …

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Testing Models Of The Incarnation: From Revelation To Historical Science, Alan G. Padgett Jan 2001

Testing Models Of The Incarnation: From Revelation To Historical Science, Alan G. Padgett

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Is it proper for the results of science to influence Christian theology? If so, on what grounds? I argue that science can and should influence theology, and give the example of historical investigation into Jesus (historical science) and Christology (theology). Proof, coherence and informal support are the three logical ways of relating data to theories. Abandoning proof, and assuming coherence, we look at the notions of abduction and retroduction (informal support á la C. S. Peirce) as models for the history-theology relationship. Among the theologians, I explicitly follow Basil Mitchell and Reinhold Niebuhr on the relationship between faith and history, …

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Evidence For A Resurrection, Phillip H. Wiebe Jan 2001

Evidence For A Resurrection, Phillip H. Wiebe

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Most discussions of the evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus do not pay sufficient attention to the question of what evidence would be needed for an "ordinary" resurrection (a resuscitation). The criteria for establishing a resuscitation include showing (a) that a person truly died, (b) that the resuscitated person's corpse no longer exists, and (c) that the resuscitated person was seen after his or her supposed resuscitation. The difficulties of traditional attempts to defend the Resurrection are shown to hinge on the limited amount of evidence available in the New Testament for these three conditions. The possible value of the …

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Dissolving The Inerrancy Debate: How Modern Philosophy Shaped The Evangelical View Of Scripture, John Perry Jan 2001

Dissolving The Inerrancy Debate: How Modern Philosophy Shaped The Evangelical View Of Scripture, John Perry

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The debate among American evangelicals over scriptural inerrancy has received less attention in recent literature than it did during its height in the 1970s and 1980s. Nonetheless the issue itself remains unresolved; indeed, many consider it beyond hope of resolution. Recent work by certain philosophers, however, suggests that there is a way out -- not by resolving the debate but by dissolving it. In particular, a model developed by Nancey Murphy for understanding the history of the split between Protestant liberals and conservatives can be appropriated for understanding the history of the inerrancy debate. Examining the history of …

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The Return Of The Congregation: Missional Warrants, Patrick R. Keifert Oct 2000

The Return Of The Congregation: Missional Warrants, Patrick R. Keifert

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The new era of mission in North America warrants the return of the congregation as the primal location of the study of theology at every level of theological education, including schools of theology.

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Book Review: A Review Of God And Contemporary Science, By Philip Clayton, Lewis S. Ford Jan 2000

Book Review: A Review Of God And Contemporary Science, By Philip Clayton, Lewis S. Ford

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This is a book review of God and Contemporary Science by Philip Clayton.

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Theodicy As A "Lived Question:" Moving Beyond A Theoretical Approach To Theodicy, Todd Billings Jan 2000

Theodicy As A "Lived Question:" Moving Beyond A Theoretical Approach To Theodicy, Todd Billings

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The thesis of this essay is that the theodicy question should be configured as a "lived question" for Christians, an open question, which affects the shape of Christian practice. Building upon the work of Terrence Tilley and Kenneth Surin, who chronicle the perils of disconnecting theodicy reflection from questions of practice, this essay seeks to articulate a Christian framing of the theodicy question in which confession and practice are configured as a mutually forming dialectic. The result is that compassionate action is rendered as a way of protesting against the present state of violence, asking with the sufferer, "my God, …

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From Thinking To Religion: The Opening Of Ideality In 19th Century Protestant Thought, Jeffrey W. Robbins Jan 2000

From Thinking To Religion: The Opening Of Ideality In 19th Century Protestant Thought, Jeffrey W. Robbins

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In this essay, I argue for a philosophical continuity and progression to Protestant religious thought in the Nineteenth Century. More specifically, I center on the work of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and Sören Kierkegaard, all of whom are Protestant Christians concerned with maintaining the worth of religion in a culture grown skeptical. The essay argues that it is the great value of Kierkegaard as a religious thinker that he provides a way beyond the conditions and strictures placed on thought by those "defenders of faith' who came before him. Kierkegaard does this by enfranchising a kind of thinking that might …

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Orthos Logos, Recta Ratio: Pope John Paul Ii, Nihilism, And Postmodern Philosophy, Michael Peters Jan 2000

Orthos Logos, Recta Ratio: Pope John Paul Ii, Nihilism, And Postmodern Philosophy, Michael Peters

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Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter, Fides et Ratio, delivered in Rome at Saint Peter's, on 14 September 1998, is the first encyclical to address the relationship between faith and reason, and other matters philosophical, for over a hundred years. Pope John Paul II suggests that, in the history of philosophy, postmodernism appears as a form of nihilism, resulting from the crisis of rationalism. He argues for a new dialogue between theology and philosophy to recover authentic wisdom and truth. This article reviews and discusses the argument of the letter, briefly sketching the Pope's argument concerning the relationship of the …

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Nature Dis-Graced And Grace De-Natured: The Problematic Of The Augustinian Doctrine Of Grace For Contemporary Theology, D. Lyle Dabney Jan 2000

Nature Dis-Graced And Grace De-Natured: The Problematic Of The Augustinian Doctrine Of Grace For Contemporary Theology, D. Lyle Dabney

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Contemporary theologians, as one of their number has commented, have turned from a theology of the Word to a theology of the world. After a period during the first half of the twentieth century in which theologians concerned themselves primarily with questions of their discipline's identity and character, they have in recent years turned to address as a matter of first principle the physical, the social, and the political issues in the world about them. In the course of this effort to shift theological direction, a number of fundamental issues have been raised which have yet to be fully examined. …

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Free Speech In Pauline Political Theology, David E. Fredrickson Jan 2000

Free Speech In Pauline Political Theology, David E. Fredrickson

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Luther On The Hidden God, Steven D. Paulson Oct 1999

Luther On The Hidden God, Steven D. Paulson

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It is not so much that God cannot be seen that concerns Luther, but that God actually and actively hides. God hides in order not to be found where humans want to find God. But God also hides in order to be found where God wills to be found.

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