{"title":"Participation in Christ and Divine and Human Righteousness: Reading Paul with Gregory of Nyssa","authors":"Joshua Heavin","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12744","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Participation in Christ and divine and human righteousness are vital, yet perennially debated, Pauline motifs. Arguably, what is most distinctive and crucial about ‘righteousness’ in Paul's epistles is its christological re-definition in texts such as 1 Cor 1:30. I contend Gregory of Nyssa's theological interpretation of the Apostle Paul is a generative resource for understanding participation in Christ and inter-relating divine and human righteousness. After sketching four crucial aspects of participation in Nyssen's broader theological vision, I explore three instances where Nyssen contemplates the meaning of righteousness and participation in 1 Cor 1:30, and explore their contribution for reading Paul today.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 2","pages":"166-192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12744","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143690238","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":"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":"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}