{"title":"PIERRE VIRET: A PASTOR AND ETHICIST FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY","authors":"Timothy Bloedow","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART12","url":null,"abstract":"Pierre Viret was a Swiss Reformation leader who worked alongside John Calvin, William Farel, and Theodore Beza, but he is less well known in the English-speaking world. Viret brought his distinctive contributions to the Protestant Reformation as a pastor and an ethicist. These contributions in life and doctrine need to be rediscovered for a more robust reformational church today. This article considers Viret’s credentials as a Reformer. It then explores various areas in which Viret applied his distinctively biblical ethic, particularly respecting the role of the magistrate and the relation between church and state. His biblical worldview is comprehensive in breadth and depth. His example is very accessible to Christians wanting to follow in his footsteps.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"118 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":"128156328","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: MATTHEW BARRETT. THE GRACE OF GODLINESS: AN INTRODUCTION TO DOCTRINE AND PIETY IN THE CANONS OF DORT","authors":"J. Jeon","doi":"10.35285/ucc4.2.2018.rev4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/ucc4.2.2018.rev4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"36 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":"125869518","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: HERMAN SELDERHUIS. MARTIN LUTHER: A SPIRITUAL BIOGRAPHY","authors":"E. Kim","doi":"10.35285/ucc4.2.2018.rev2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/ucc4.2.2018.rev2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"54 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":"130623104","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":"SEXUALITY AND THE LOST PROLETARIAT","authors":"Noel K. Weeks","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART3","url":null,"abstract":"Original Marxism was utopian, materialistic, and determinist. All human dynamics were explained by the dialectic or conflict between capitalists and the proletariat, with the victory of the proletariat being certain. In spite of the fact that determinism eliminates responsibility, those opposing Marxism were seen as evil. Marx’s prophecy failed, and Russian communism emerged as evil and repressive. “Western” Marxism used Freudian psychology to explain the rise of fascism. It looked for another “proletariat,” who were “oppressed.” Co-opting the 1960s social revolution, it found this proletariat in non-Europeans, women, and homosexuals. This involved accepting the genetic determinism of the fascists. All who disagree continue to be treated as evil.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"95 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":"124692455","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":"GENESIS 2:24 AND THE NEW COVENANT: A PROFOUND MYSTERY","authors":"C. Hamer","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART4","url":null,"abstract":"Ephesians 5:31–32 articulates the root metaphor of New Testament marital imagery. The profound mystery is that the “one flesh” marital affinity union of Genesis 2:24 is how the new covenant fulfills the Abrahamic promise and brings the elect of “all the nations” into union with Christ. Thus, a sensus plenior is read into Genesis 2:24 that foreshadows redemptive history.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"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":"114346461","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":"EDITORIAL: DID ARMINIUS WIN?","authors":"P. Wells","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.EDI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.EDI","url":null,"abstract":"Some Calvinists may not be convinced, but Arminius won. We are of course talking about the spirit of Arminius, who had been in the tomb a good few years before his defenders’ Remonstrant theses were hotly debated at the Synod of Dort, of which this year marks the fourth centenary. Hence some contributions relevant to this theme appear in this issue of Unio cum Christo.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"675 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":"131920945","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":"JOHN CALVIN AND PHILIP MELANCHTHON’S SUM OF THEOLOGY","authors":"P. Wells, Alison Wells","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART13","url":null,"abstract":"This preface to the French translation of Melanchthon’s Sum of Theology (Opera Omnia 9:847–50) was written by Calvin in 1546. It has been translated from the French by Alison Wells, introduced and annotated by Paul Wells. Our thanks to Paul Helm for suggesting this translation, to our knowledge the first time into English.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"147 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":"133851015","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":"ON SERVING GOD IN OUR GENERATION","authors":"David Mckay","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART1","url":null,"abstract":"How are Christians to serve Christ at this point in history? We approach the question from the perspective of faith in a sovereign God, not in pessimism or defeatism. While activity is required, God’s chief concern is with being rather than doing. We ask first, “Who are we?” Identity is not self-generated but given by God. Christians are Christlike people— redeemed, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, loving, and holy. They are also a covenant community—united with the Triune God and with one another. We then ask, “What should we be doing?” After repenting of our failures, we are, according to our particular callings and contexts, sent to preach the Word, spread the gospel, engage with society, and endure persecution.","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"9 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":"126504824","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: ROBERT SHERMAN. COVENANT, COMMUNITY, AND THE SPIRIT: A TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY OF THE CHURCH","authors":"Donald E. Cobb","doi":"10.35285/ucc4.2.2018.rev1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/ucc4.2.2018.rev1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269329,"journal":{"name":"CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE","volume":"82 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":"115738791","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":"PURITANS ON THE FAMILY: RECENT PUBLICATIONS","authors":"J. Beeke, Paul Smalley","doi":"10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35285/UCC4.2.2018.ART14","url":null,"abstract":"The Puritans are well known for their teachings on practical godliness, especially godliness in the family. This article reviews three selections from biblical commentaries, five portions of books, four booklets, and seven complete books by the Puritans on family life that have been reprinted recently. Full books reviewed include those by William Gouge, Richard Baxter, Daniel Rogers, Matthew Henry, George Hammond, and Dutch Further Reformation divine Jacobus Koelman. The article concludes with a full bibliography of Puritan works on the family, including\u0000Pearly modern publications and more recent reprints.","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":"128216979","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}