{"title":"The Systematic Normativity of Nicene Theology☆","authors":"Khaled Anatolios","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12779","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Council is an opportune moment to consider the possibility that the production and defense of the Nicene confession represent the fruition and manifestation of a way of doing theology that is perennially valid and normative precisely with respect to its systematic integration of the contents of Christian faith. In this paper, I argue that the Nicene controversy should be viewed as an event of ‘systematic’ theology insofar as it presented a creative re-integration of Christian faith, and I show how Nicene trinitarian doctrine encompassed distinct approaches to biblical exegesis, liturgical theology, and moral theology.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 4","pages":"443-463"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145243049","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":"David A. Torrance, Christian Kinship: Family-Relatedness in Christian Practice and Moral Thought. London: T&T Clark, 2024, x + 202pp. $27.96","authors":"Elizabeth Gatewood","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12785","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 4","pages":"579-582"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242956","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":"Charles Helmer, The Lord Who Listens: A Dogmatic Inquiry into God as Hearer. Leiden: Brill, 2024, x + 207pp. $72","authors":"Kyle McCracken","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12784","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 4","pages":"571-573"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242957","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":"Matthew Lee Anderson, Confidence in Life: A Barthian Account of Procreation. Enquiries in Theological Ethics. London: T&T Clark, 2024, 272pp. $115","authors":"Tyler R. Wittman","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12782","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 4","pages":"576-578"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242850","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":"Thomas G. Doughty, Supralapsarian Christology and the Progressive Work of Christ: Christus Dominus. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024, 221pp. £85","authors":"Jerome Van Kuiken","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12781","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 4","pages":"573-575"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242992","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":"Guus H. Labooy, Christology and Atonement: A Scotistic Analysis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024, viii +180pp. $100","authors":"Andrew V. Rosato","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12783","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 4","pages":"566-568"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242993","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":"The Public Character of Church in the Digital Age☆","authors":"Benedikt Levin Heymann","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12775","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The rise of digital technology in recent decades has led to a rapid change of communication and interaction within society and its public dimensions. As this shift in the technological landscape raises theological questions about the appropriate ecclesial use of digital technology, it also touches upon fundamental questions about the church's public role, its claims, and its mission. Under the theological premise of the public character of church and its witness (1), this essay discusses the relationship between the public character of church and the ongoing digital transformation. The discussion begins by challenging a reductionist view of technology, emphasizing its socio-cultural significance and the profound implications it holds for both society at large (2) and the ecclesial context in particular (3). Building on these foundational insights, the essay delves into an analysis of three prevailing perspectives on the church's public character – viewing the church as an institution of moral formation, as a public, and as an active participant in the public sphere – each reconsidered in the context of digital transformation (4). In the final section, it is proposed that the discourse on public theology, when reconsidered through the lens of digital media, may be enriched by embracing a form of ‘irregular’ public theology (5).</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"75-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12775","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147288280","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 Promise of Nicene Lutheranism","authors":"David Luy","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12778","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What does it mean for the church still to go on in the same way as Nicaea? Recent patristic scholarship has complicated this question by emphasizing the embedded character of Nicaea's surface-level dogmatic judgments, thus suggesting (whether explicitly or by implication) that genuine continuity with the Nicene tradition calls for an alignment with Nicaea far more robust and expansive than the maintenance of simple assent to its creed. The aim of this article is to consider apparent challenges which arise from this thick delineation of Nicaea for the modern Lutheran theological tradition, suggesting in the final analysis that in order to ‘go on in the same way as Nicaea’ in accordance with this thick delineation, it will be necessary for some strands of modern Lutheran theology to adjust the manner in which they understand and assert the criteriological primacy of the Gospel.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 4","pages":"550-565"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145243036","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":"Public Theology as Mediation: Navigating the Dutch Protestant Church's Public Calling in a Hypermediated World☆","authors":"Rachèl Blokhuis-Koopman","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12772","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article explores Christianity's role in society through public theology, particularly in relation to the public calling of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN). It advocates for reflecting on the dichotomy of church/world through the lens of divine mediation, challenging traditional dualisms and emphasizing a ‘soft difference’ between religion, media and popular culture. By exploring the concept of hypermediation and its implications, it proposes integrating a conceptual reflection on practices of mediation into the PCN's public theology, offering a nuanced understanding of its public calling that goes beyond mere statements in today's post-secular hypermediated landscape.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"94-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12772","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680575","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}