{"title":"Andrew Picard, Colin Gunton’s Trinitarian Theology of Culture: Towards a Living Sacrifice of Praise. London: T&T Clark, 2024, 313pp. $115.00","authors":"Uche Anizor","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"115-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emily Cain, Mirrors of the Divine: Late Ancient Christianity and the Vision of God. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023, viii + 209pp. $98.00","authors":"W. Travis McMaken","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"122-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147269005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Judith Wolfe, The Theological Imagination: Perception and Interpretation in Life, Art, and Faith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024, xii + 196pp. $32.99","authors":"Todd C. Ream","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"127-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giulio Maspero, The Cappadocian Reshaping of Metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 242pp. $110","authors":"Evan F. Kuehn","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"117-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147280077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Andrew B. Torrance, Accountability to God. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, xi + 220pp. $90.00","authors":"Jesse Couenhoven","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"124-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147280078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ty Kieser, Theandric and Triune: John Owen and Christological Agency. London: T&T Clark, 2024, 243pp. $39.95","authors":"John W. Tweeddale","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"120-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Good Public Theology is Twilight Theology. A Constructive Deconstruction of Public Theology","authors":"Günter Thomas","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12780","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article outlines the basic features of a good public theology that is inspired by Paul’s description of the situation of the church and Christians: ‘The night has passed, the day is not far distant’ (Rom 13:12). In his analysis of the present, the author identifies eight specific challenges of contemporary culture – challenges that have so far been insufficiently addressed by ‘public theologies’. In contrast to many primarily discursive ‘public theologies’, the author emphasises the multimediality of ‘a good public theology’ and outlines five so-called ‘public faces of faith’ as examples. In principle, the article argues in favour of a ‘good public theology’ that does not dissolve into rational ethics, but rather explores and elucidates God’s adventures with the world. In doing so, this theology risks remaining ‘theological theology’. In view of the vast landscapes of ‘forgetting God’ and scepticism, a good twilight theology would do well to encourage the church to publish its ‘conflict conversations with God’ and the promises of God that are still outstanding. This sharing of the conflicts manifested in lament is a paradoxical intervention in the doubting and sceptical cultural presence. Furthermore, the article argues in favour of addressing the professions in particular as sub-publics that shape the present.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"56-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12780","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testimonial for Christ? A Theology of Witness in the Face of Testimonial Studies","authors":"Frederike van Oorschot","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As a contemporary mode of discourse and basic concept of Christian existence, the concept of witnessing, at the interface of public theology and testimonial studies, is examined with regard to its epistemic dimension: What implications does witnessing as knowledge practice have for theology? To this end, the paper outlines the understanding of witness: Witnessing is transcendent across time, but not ahistorical, subjective and related to an object, individual and decodable, true-speaking and not evidence-based, direct and reflexive, convincing and epistemically modest, trusting and not naïve. As witnessing leads to a community that is entrusted with a responsibility, the paper examines the theological questions attached. Finally, a theology of witness is outlined understood as epistemic responsibility in the community of academic theology associated with the call for epistemic clarity on the one hand and an attitude of epistemic modesty and hospitality on the other.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"34-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147268994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Retiring Public Theology Is Not A Good Idea. An Intervention from German-Speaking Public Theology","authors":"Christine Schliesser","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12788","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While no longer exactly a theological youngster, Public Theology (‘<i>Öffentliche Theologie</i>’) is not ready to retire. Focusing on the particular German-speaking context, this contribution makes a case for the importance of continuing the conversation with Public Theology, seeking to alleviate misunderstandings between the different conversation partners such as Cultural Witness and Political Theology. Firmly grounded in the same Christological core, featuring the same ecumenical DNA, facing similar challenges as diasporic churches and joined in the same missio Dei, German-speaking Public Theology works side by side with Cultural Witness and Political Theology in creating a new social imaginary, illuminating ways of how our respective cultures appear as seen in the radiant light of the Christian story.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"19-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12788","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Theology of Cultural Witness","authors":"Graham Tomlin","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12787","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Taking its impetus from the founding of the Centre for Cultural Witness within the Church of England in 2023, this article explores the concept of witness as a theological and missional category, undertaken within the particular context of contemporary European culture and drawing on the work of Karl Barth, Lesslie Newbigin, Stefan Paas and Walter Brueggemann. The notion of Jesus Christ as the true witness provides the starting point for a theology of witness, suggesting witness as the primary posture of the Church’s engagement towards the world, particularly within the context of the Church’s place in late modern European culture. It argues that the Church, as the people gathered by the testimony of Christ, rather than the academy or individual Christians, is the primary location of Christian witness in the world and that one of the primary ways in which such a witness will take place is in the redescription of reality in the light of the coming of Christ.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"6-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}