{"title":"THOMAS CHALMERS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR A CHRISTIAN NATION","authors":"A. Harman","doi":"10.53521/a351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a351","url":null,"abstract":"Review of THOMAS CHALMERS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR A CHRISTIAN NATIONBy Esmond Birnie (Belfast: The Evangelical Bookshop, 2018), 224pp., £9.99. ISBN 9780952266259","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126996450","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}
{"title":"The Beatific Vision in the Synopsis Purioris: Its Medieval Context","authors":"Zachary Seals","doi":"10.53521/a343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a343","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the background to the discussion of the beatific vision found in the Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (1625) by comparing what is found therein with several treatments of the topic by prior and contemporary theologians at the University of Leiden. This historical context reveals the distinctive contribution offered by the SPT, which primarily consists in its engagement with debates found in medieval scholasticism concerning the beatific vision. By surveying two exemplary thinkers from the medieval era, Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus, in consideration with what was found in the SPT, an example is provided that displays the eclectic appropriation of medieval sources within the Reformed Orthodox tradition.","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114864247","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}
{"title":"Defending ‘Avertive’ Religion: Calvin on the Visio Dei and Moral Theology","authors":"Alden C. McCray","doi":"10.53521/a344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a344","url":null,"abstract":"Against claims that John Calvin repudiated the beatific vision and teleological virtue ethics, this article demonstrates the importance of the visio Dei by examining sections of Calvin’s exegesis and several important sermons. To explicate how such a teleology impacts the Christian’s relation to ‘lower goods’, it then explores Augustine’s theology of created being. Together these conversations contribute to an explanation of Calvin’s view of Christian moral life now through growth in virtue and in relation to the hope of seeing or contemplating God.","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128071272","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}
{"title":"WALKING IN THE ANCIENT PATHS: A Commentary on Jeremiah","authors":"A. Harman","doi":"10.53521/a346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a346","url":null,"abstract":"Review of WALKING IN THE ANCIENT PATHS: A Commentary on JeremiahBy Walter C. Kaiser Jr, with Tiberius Rata (Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2019), 633pp., US$49.99.ISBN 9781683592679","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"102 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121006970","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}
{"title":"Graced Exchange and Vision of God in Calvin’s Atonement Theology","authors":"Carl Mosser","doi":"10.53521/a355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a355","url":null,"abstract":"John Calvin structured his soteriology and doctrine of atonement around the patristic principle of graced exchange, the idea that Christ became what we are in order to make us what he is. In them, Christ’s descent to hell and the believer’s ascent to God represent the two furthest poles of the exchange. Descent to hell and ascent to God both involve vision of God. Calvin explains descent to hell as the terror sinners experience in their souls when they sense God’s wrath and judgment. In the passion and crucifixion, Christ arraigned himself before God’s tribunal as our surety to make satisfaction. Standing in the place of the accused, he saw God as an angry judge prepared to punish sin. As a real human being with the affections and infirmities common to human nature, Christ could not help but experience terror in his soul and even fear for his own salvation. Christ willingly underwent this ordeal to prove his obedience, demonstrate his love for humanity, and secure a more lavish redemption than otherwise possible. Christ emerged from the ordeal victorious and the Father accepted his obedience as satisfaction for our sin. As a result, the redeemed are adopted as sons who will ascend to God and see him face-to-face as a propitious Father.","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131180589","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}
{"title":"GOSPEL SHAPED MARRIAGE: Grace for Sinners to Love Like Saints","authors":"Thomas J. Emery","doi":"10.53521/a350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a350","url":null,"abstract":"Review of GOSPEL SHAPED MARRIAGE: Grace for Sinners to Love Like SaintsBy Chad Van Dixhoorn and Emily Van Dixhoorn (Wheaton: Crossway, 2022), 160pp., US$17.99ISBN: 9781433580710","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121872371","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}
{"title":"THE LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS","authors":"Guy Wates","doi":"10.53521/a347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a347","url":null,"abstract":"Review of THE LETTER TO THE EPHESIANSBy Lynn H. Cohick, NICNT (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020), xlvi + 475pp., hbk, US$57.99ISBN: 9780802868428","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"481 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134407253","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}
{"title":"ECCLESIASTES: LIFE IN A FALLEN WORLD","authors":"A. Harman","doi":"10.53521/a345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a345","url":null,"abstract":"Review of ECCLESIASTES: LIFE IN A FALLEN WORLD By Benjamin Shaw (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2008), 156pp., £5.50.ISBN: 9781848718685","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"500 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134286731","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}
{"title":"PARTICIPATION AND ATONEMENT: An Analytic and Constructive Account","authors":"J. Revell","doi":"10.53521/a348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a348","url":null,"abstract":"Review of PARTICIPATION AND ATONEMENT: An Analytic and Constructive AccountBy Oliver D. Crisp (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2022), 272pp., hbk, US$29.99ISBN: 9780801049965","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"315 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134256151","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}