{"title":"BOOK REVIEW: DAVID GIBSON AND JONATHAN GIBSON, EDS. FROM HEAVEN HE CAME AND SOUGHT HER: DEFINITE ATONEMENT IN HISTORICAL, BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL, AND PASTORAL PERSPECTIVE","authors":"Thomas Haviland-Pabst","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.REV5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.REV5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127578474","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":"INTERVIEW WITH PETER OPITZ","authors":"Peter A. Lillback","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.INT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.INT","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130948852","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 DOCUMENTS OF THE SYNOD OF DORT (1618–1619)—A NEW EDITION","authors":"D. Sinnema","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART10","url":null,"abstract":"A new project is underway to produce a ten-volume critical edition of all the documents of the Synod of Dort in their original languages (Latin [eighty percent of them], Dutch, German, English, and French) as close as possible to the anniversary years 2018 and 2019. It is published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Göttingen) and includes documents already published and those available only in manuscript. In contrast to the originally published Acta, the new edition contains the documents produced by the synod and its delegates and fully incorporates all the Remonstrant documents.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121356286","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: JONATHAN WILLIS. THE REFORMATION OF THE DECALOGUE: RELIGIOUS IDENTITY AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN ENGLAND, C. 1485–1625","authors":"H. Perkins","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.REV3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.REV3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122913827","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 THEOLOGY OF THE CANONS OF DORT: A REASSESSMENT AFTER FOUR HUNDRED YEARS","authors":"A. Huijgen","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART7","url":null,"abstract":"This article reassesses the value of the Canons of Dort, drafted at the Synod of Dort (1618–19). A picture with diverse shades emerges. After four hundred years, the Canons of Dort stand out when compared to the Remonstrant position for their pastoral tone, Reformed catholicity, emphasis on the efficacity of divine grace, an infralapsarian stance on the decrees of God, and their biblical character. In retrospect, however, the Canons also show theological limitations such as allowing the dominance of the Arminian agenda, the potentially problematic nature of complex, causal logic, the deficiency of certain important biblical notions, and a deficiency as to the centrality of Christ. Christ as the mirror of election in particular deserves a more central place in the doctrine of election.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125362572","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":"ABUNDANT SUFFICIENCY AND INTENTIONAL EFFICACY: PARTICULAR REDEMPTION AT THE SYNOD OF DORT","authors":"Lee Gatiss","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART9","url":null,"abstract":"This article looks at the background to the Synod of Dort (1618–1619) and examines the debate there on the issue of particular redemption or definite atonement, with a specific focus on the use of the classic distinction between sufficiency and efficacy made famous by Peter Lombard’s Sentences. It also looks at the variety of Reformed responses to the Remonstrants, including those on the death of Christ that might be categorized as hypothetical universalist. It calls into question the usefulness of the terminology of “four-point Calvinists” to describe delegates such as John Davenant.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123170613","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":"UNIO CUM CHRISTO AND REFORMED COMPLEMENTARITY","authors":"N. Brand","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART5","url":null,"abstract":"This article highlights the reticence of the Reformed community toward spirituality, which is devastating in light of our chief end “to glorify God and enjoy him forever” (Westminster Shorter Catechism 1). Reformed spirituality, seemingly short of a lively biblical contemporary expression, needs to be rekindled in a way consistent with its heritage. An increased complementarian practice among the Reformed will assist in such a spiritual reanimation, in the form of a corporate Reformed spirituality founded upon union with Christ. An initial trace of a feminine enjoyment of union with Christ demonstrates this proposal, and, in the spirit of semper reformanda, a discussion of areas for an improved complementarity in the pastoral care and employment of women and of the absence of Reformed female scholars follows.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"167 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116271277","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: JAMES P. EGLINTON, ED. AND TRANS. HERMAN BAVINCK ON PREACHING AND PREACHERS","authors":"Sinclair B. Ferguson","doi":"10.35285/ucc4.2.2018.rev6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/ucc4.2.2018.rev6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129911686","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":"TRANSGENDER: TRANS-ITION TO NOWHERE","authors":"Peter Jones","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART2","url":null,"abstract":"Based on Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (ESV), the apostle Paul in Romans 1:25 gives an amazingly com- plete definition of the only two ways of existing in the world: “they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.” I call these two ways of existing Oneism and Twoism.\u0000In Oneism, if you worship creation, you will believe that the world is self-created, self-explanatory, and all made of the same stuff (matter, spirit, or a mixture). Paganism is the worship of nature. If everything shares the same divine substance, then all distinctions are eliminated and everything is god. In Twoism, if you worship God, you will believe that he is the Creator—an external, intelligent, personal God. There are two kinds of existence—the Creator who is uncreated, and everything else, which is created. He has placed distinctions in his creation, making what I call Twoism a worldview based on the binaries of otherness and difference.\u0000From living under the cultural canopy of biblical truth, our world has changed in the last one or two generations. This becomes especially evident in the modern views of sexuality—in particular, transsexuality, where human beings now self-define and reject the creational binary of male/female sexuality.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115559948","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 PERENNITY OF ANSELM’S PROSLOGION","authors":"Y. Imbert","doi":"10.35285/ucc4.2.2018.art11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/ucc4.2.2018.art11","url":null,"abstract":"The first goal of Anselm in the Proslogion is to encourage believers by demonstrating the absolute necessity of the existence of the God of the Bible. Anselm most likely succeeds as the definition of God that he adopts is faithful to the content of special revelation. Whether the argument can function as an argument for the existence of God can be doubted. In this article we look at the various aspects of the question.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"354 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132554391","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}