Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology最新文献

{"title":"“This Mystical Blessing” : The Patristic Roots of John Calvin’s Eucharistic Theology","authors":"Geoffrey Butler","doi":"10.1177/10638512211003862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10638512211003862","url":null,"abstract":"Though committed to the final authority of Scripture in all matters, John Calvin’s Institutes and biblical commentaries show him to be a remarkable student of patristics. His doctrine of the Lord’s Supper was no exception, as Calvin calls upon the likes of Augustine, Chrysostom, Tertullian and others to support his position. This article, therefore, contends that Calvin’s engagement with the Fathers – though imperfect – demonstrates that his view, in essence, may be clearly traced to the patristic period. It also suggests that his reverence for tradition, which he considered consistent with his commitment to sola scriptura, makes Calvin a prime example for contemporary evangelicals as they reflect on their own doctrine of the Supper. Not only would paying close attention to the Fathers enrich their own understanding, but given that such figures are esteemed by the wider church, it may well contribute to a more robust ecumenical conversation around the sacraments.","PeriodicalId":223812,"journal":{"name":"Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123064758","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":"Inspiration and Textual Preservation: A Catholic Essay on the Bible","authors":"James B. Prothro","doi":"10.1177/1063851221993913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1063851221993913","url":null,"abstract":"The doctrine of inspiration grounds Christian use and interpretation of Scripture, making this doctrine at once theoretical and practical. Many theoretical accounts, however, restrict the “inspired” status of biblical texts to a single text-form, which introduces problems for the practical use of Scripture in view of the texts’ historical multiformity. This article argues that such restrictions of inspiration are theologically problematic and unnecessary. Contextualizing inspiration within the divine revelatory economy, this article argues that the Spirit’s same goals and varied activities in the texts’ composition obtain also in their preservation, so that we can consider multiple forms of a text to be inspired while acknowledging that not all forms are inspired to equal ends in the history and life of the church. The article concludes with hermeneutical reflections affirming that we, today, can read the “word of the Lord” while also affirming the place of textual criticism in theological interpretation.","PeriodicalId":223812,"journal":{"name":"Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115940366","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":"Thomas Aquinas on Sexual Difference: The Metaphysical Biology and Moral Significance of Human Sexuality","authors":"Paul Gondreau","doi":"10.1177/1063851220981725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1063851220981725","url":null,"abstract":"Thomas Aquinas offers for his time a novel take on human sexual difference, in that he grounds human sexuality in what we might term a metaphysical biology and accords it a privileged role in the moral life. Though his biology is drawn from Aristotle, which leads Aquinas to make problematic statements on sexual difference, he nonetheless offers a perspective that remains deeply relevant and significant for today. His method or approach of tethering sexual difference first and foremost to our animal-like biological design remains perennial, particularly at a time when many seek to dismiss biology as irrelevant to sexual identity and gender difference. The latest findings of the emerging field of neurobiology, which have uncovered structural differences between the male and female brains, offer key support to Aquinas’s approach. Even more important, he holds, in an unprecedented move, that sexual design and inclination provide a veritable source of moral excellence. He goes so far as to locate the mean of virtue in our sexual design and appetites.","PeriodicalId":223812,"journal":{"name":"Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126309667","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":"Via Humilitatis Agendo: St. Augustine’s Sacramental Theology of Preaching","authors":"Charles G. Kim","doi":"10.1177/1063851220969668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1063851220969668","url":null,"abstract":"Given that most scholars focus on St. Augustine’s larger treatises, this article explores how the African Bishop preached to an audience of fishermen and farmers in rural North Africa. This article emphasizes how St. Augustine demonstrated the Via Humilitatis found in Christ for his audience. It thus shows why St. Augustine’s preaching looked so different from that of the modern day in addition to uncovering his theology of a sacramental encounter with the Humble Word in preaching.","PeriodicalId":223812,"journal":{"name":"Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127074022","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 Body of Christ: An Aligning Union Model","authors":"Rolfe King","doi":"10.1177/10638512211013493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10638512211013493","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of recent debate about whether “Reformed Catholics” and Protestants, more generally, should accept Augustine’s totus Christus Christological ecclesiology, I illustrate the notion of an asymmetric aligning union. This is a metaphysically real union, but not a substantial union. I suggest that Reformed catholic theology would be better served by deploying the notion of an asymmetric aligning union. It preserves the Reformation solas and is compatible with the notion of the mystical body of Christ, without the disadvantages of the totus Christus notion, if that is taken to involve a substantial union. This form of union should be of wider ecumenical interest.","PeriodicalId":223812,"journal":{"name":"Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115326028","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 Law of Embrace: Satisfaction, Forgiveness, and the Cross in Aquinas, Lonergan, and Volf","authors":"Zane E. Chu","doi":"10.1177/1063851220973334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1063851220973334","url":null,"abstract":"A dialogue between Aquinas and Volf mediated by Lonergan illuminates the practical significance of Christ’s redemptive work. Aquinas contemplates the mystery of Christ’s passion as an act of satisfaction proceeding from charity that makes amends for wrongdoing. Lonergan specifies this satisfaction as a fitting expression of sorrow for the granting of forgiveness. He further identifies the essential meaning and practical significance of redemption as the transformation of evil into good, and calls it the law of the cross. Volf delineates the significance of the cross for practices of reconciliation, the movement from exclusion to embrace through repentance, forgiveness, and making space for the other. I suggest that Volf’s framework is undergirded by Lonergan’s law of the cross and assists retrieving the latent practical significance of Aquinas’ contemplation. Satisfaction for another is interpreted as forgiveness in the movement from exclusion to embrace proceeding from charity interpreted as the will to embrace.","PeriodicalId":223812,"journal":{"name":"Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134184599","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":"Book Review: Yuval Noah Harrari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow","authors":"N. Austriaco","doi":"10.1177/1063851220974260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1063851220974260","url":null,"abstract":"Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who has written two New York Times bestsellers, Sapiens and Homo Deus. They are, respectively, his telling of the sweeping saga of human history and of an imagined future for his transhumanist aspirations. In many ways, they constitute a compelling salvation history for the secular soul. A mix of historical analysis and philosophical musing, his grand narrative provides answers to the big questions of the human heart: Where do I come from? Why am I the way that I am? Where am I going? For what should I hope? For some of my secular friends, it is a worthy rival of the Gospel as a sure guide for self-realization and fulfillment in a post-Christian society. Written in vivid language with memorable turns of phrase, Sapiens is a chronicle that captures the genealogy of our civilization from the perspective of three historical movements: the Cognitive Revolution about 70,000 years ago, the Agricultural Revolution about 12,000 years ago, and the Scientific Revolution about 500 years ago. For Harari, each of these revolutions enabled our human ancestors to better create “imagined realities” like gods, nations, and corporations. These “myths”—others would call them social constructs— facilitated the cooperation among large numbers of strangers and the rapid innovation of social behavior that together gave rise to human civilization. 974260 PRE0010.1177/1063851220974260Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical TheologyBook Review book-review2020","PeriodicalId":223812,"journal":{"name":"Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114290076","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":"Book Review: Henri de Lubac, Vatican Council Notebooks: Volume 1 and Volume 2","authors":"Matthew A. Rothaus Moser","doi":"10.1177/1063851220969885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1063851220969885","url":null,"abstract":"“What will this Council be?” This is a question that Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) asked in anticipation of the opening of the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). It is a question that remains apropos today nearly 60 years after the Council as historians and theologians consider the legacy of Vatican II and what it means for the Roman Catholic Church today. With the publication of the two volumes of de Lubac’s Vatican Council Notebooks, Ignatius Press offers anglophone scholars a new window for looking backward to the Council’s unfolding, development, and contested conclusions, as a way of looking forward to the ongoing work of renewing, revising, extending, and translating the Council’s accomplishments into our own day. The Notebooks cover a period of 5 years, from de Lubac’s initial—and surprising—appointment to the Preparatory Theological Commission in the summer of 1960 to the closing Mass of the Council in December of 1965. These two volumes include versions of de Lubac’s six council notebooks that de Lubac himself redacted for publication. Despite these redactions, the Notebooks depict the Council in unprecedented detail through de Lubac’s near-daily chronicle of conciliar happenings. The Notebooks are aimed at a narrow scholarly audience and the intellectual cost of admission is high. These are not aimed at a general readership, even a general scholarly readership. But scholars of Vatican II, 20th-century Catholicism, and de Lubac’s theology will find in these volumes a treasure 969885 PRE0010.1177/1063851220969885Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical TheologyBook Review book-review2020","PeriodicalId":223812,"journal":{"name":"Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132516566","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":"William J. Abraham, Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume III: Systematic Theology","authors":"Justus H. Hunter","doi":"10.1177/1063851220969899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1063851220969899","url":null,"abstract":"William Abraham’s four-volume Divine Agency and Divine Action promises to be the most significant advance in evangelical Methodist theology since Thomas C. Oden’s Classic Christianity. This is the third of the soon-to-becompleted four-volume set from Oxford University Press. The first volume gives a philosophical analysis of the concept of divine action. Abraham’s central thesis there is that the concept of action is open. That is, no fixed set of necessary and sufficient conditions can be supplied for those phenomena denominated “action.” Thus, the path to analysis of any given action will be particular; it must develop from the particular phenomenon itself, rather than by application of some general definition of action to any particular case. If this is true for creaturely actions, so it will be for any instance of divine action. The path to understanding action, divine or creaturely, lies in particularist attention to individual cases. And, Abraham argues, the theologian ought to be relieved by this insight. More than that, theologians should be invigorated. Since action is an open concept, we set out in pursuit of detailed reflection upon particular divine actions. And this is exactly what Christian theologians have, in their finest and most valuable moments, always done: attentively developed particular analyses of particular acts. The second volume of Divine Agency and Divine Action narrates key moments in the history of Christian theology as just such a venture. Abraham shows how theologians across the Christian past have approached particular instances of divine action in a particularist manner. This third volume begins to sketch a systematic theology across key dogmatic loci in light of Abraham’s fundamental commitments on divine action. The theology of Volume III is certainly a beginning. Many chapters are mere sketches and suggestions. This is a strength of the book, as Abraham has the unique ability to draw his readers along so many explorations of so many topics and themes in theology. And it is, at times, a weakness. 969899 PRE0010.1177/1063851220969899Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical TheologyBook Review book-review2020","PeriodicalId":223812,"journal":{"name":"Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132073562","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":"What is Good for Christ is Good for the Cosmos: Affirming the Resurrection of Creation","authors":"Keith Starkenburg","doi":"10.1177/1063851220967333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1063851220967333","url":null,"abstract":"Many churches and scholars affirm that God renews the cosmos at the eschaton. Some scholars have begun to say the cosmos is resurrected in Christ, without much warrant for that discourse. With a focus on N.T. Wright and Richard Middleton, this article shows why some scholars have begun to say that the creation is resurrected in Christ, along with the relative paucity of an argument for this claim. The article begins to fulfill this need by making a theological argument from biblical sources, utilizing an interpretive approach outlined by David Yeago. It suggests that, for some scholars, the idea that the creation is not destroyed at the eschaton may motivate resistance to the claim that creation is resurrected.","PeriodicalId":223812,"journal":{"name":"Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129675198","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}