{"title":"Reclaiming Heaven from History: A Theological Critique of Martin Hägglund's This Life","authors":"Jared Michelson","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12739","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Martin Hägglund's <i>This Life</i> offers an incisive critique of Christian visions of eternal life. Theological responses to Hägglund emphasize the ‘worldly’ nature of heaven over-against overly Platonic, ‘otherworldly’ accounts of everlasting life. In contrast, I suggest Hägglund's critique fails to grapple with theocentric forms of creaturely consummation qualitatively distinct from mundane life. I critique Hägglund's ‘suspicious’ reading of Augustine and CS Lewis, and, in dialogue with Michael Rosen, suggest his account of what makes finite life meaningful participates in an early modern movement from heaven to ‘historical immortality’. Hägglund thinks heaven is not desirable, yet when interpreted in the foregoing terms, this is the precise objection I direct at his account of ‘historical immortality’.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 2","pages":"248-269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12739","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143690239","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":"The Faith of Nicaea, the Hierarchy of Truths and the Restoration of Eucharistic Communion between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches","authors":"Paul L. Gavrilyuk","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12738","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper discusses the problem of Orthodox-Catholic disunity by naming non-theological and discussing theological issues behind the issues in bilateral dialogues between the Churches. The main theological issue is the absence of agreement on which doctrinal differences should or should not count as church-dividing. The author argues that the concept of the ‘hierarchy of truths’, introduced by Vatican II's <i>Unitatis Redintegratio</i> is a promising heuristic tool for distinguishing the doctrines that pertain to the ‘fundamental Christian faith’ and other important doctrines that do not have the same authoritative status. The author proposes that the agreement on the ‘Nicene faith’ could function as a sufficient condition for the Eucharistic communion between the two Churches on two grounds of the use of the Creed in the rites of initiation and the liturgy. The author subsequently articulates three potential objections to his proposal, responds to these objections, and finishes the paper with what could be called a ‘Nicene Formula of Reunion’. The proposed Formula includes a commitment to seeking an increasingly greater convergence on doctrinal and ecclesiastical issues on which there is continuing, although not church-dividing disagreement.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 4","pages":"480-506"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145243187","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":"Edmund, Schlink, Ecumenical Dogmatics. Edmund Schlink Works, Volume 2: Parts 1–2. Edited by Matthew L. Becker. Translated by Matthew L. Becker, Robin Lutjohann, Hans G. Spalteholz, Mark A. Seifrid, Eleanor Wegener, and Ken Jones. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2023. 1276pp. 150.00€","authors":"David Luy","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"135-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115723","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":"Peter Damian Fehlner, Studies Systematic and Critical: The Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv., Volume 8. Edited by J. Isaac Goff. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2023, 716pp. $85.00","authors":"Andrew L. Ouellette","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12736","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"126-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115702","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":"Frances M. Young, Doctrine and Scripture in Early Christianity. Volume One: Scripture, the Genesis of Doctrine. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2023, xxviii +280pp. $40.99","authors":"Michael C. Legaspi","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12734","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"141-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114476","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":"Kevin W. Hector, Christianity as a Way of Life: A Systematic Theology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023, 328pp. $40.00","authors":"Joshua W. Jipp","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12735","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"131-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114474","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":"Philosophy and Theology in Hans Urs von Balthasar: Metaphysics and Kenosis","authors":"Christian J. Ivandić","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12731","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay highlights Balthasar's kenoticism as the key notion that allows him to relate intimately but also to distinguish clearly between (metaphysical) philosophy and (Trinitarian) theology. Through a careful study of Balthasar's metaphysics and kenoticism, this essay shows that Balthasar's <i>Trilogy</i> develops, in light of its kenotic reading of the immanent Trinity, a kenotically expressed metaphysics. The result is a reciprocal elucidation between theology and philosophy and a genuinely Trinitarian ontology, that is, a deeply Trinitarian account of the metaphysical constitution of finite being that still distinguishes between the philosophical and the theological disciplines.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"67-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118427","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":"Romanticism in the Kenotic God: Receptivity, Engaging, Affective Unity, and the Psychological Ontology of the Christic Person","authors":"Alexandra Pârvan","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12730","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ‘romantic vs. classic’ dispute in the literary field is proposed as a useful frame of reference from which to analyse, mend, and expand Bruce McCormack's latest theological model. The first part of the essay identifies several clashes of McCormack's theory with classical theism, explaining how their ontologies are mutually incompatible. The second part uses insights from romantic poetry and thinking in order to develop McCormack's concept of ‘ontological receptivity’ (in the Son) and introduce the new concept of ‘engaging’ (in Jesus) as its conceptual pair and to propose ‘affective unity’ as the basis for Christic unity. Throughout, an argument for the value of employing a psychological ontology in discourses about the God-human is shaped.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 2","pages":"221-247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689462","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}