{"title":"Gary Anderson, That I May Dwell Among Them: Incarnation and Atonement in the Tabernacle Narrative. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2023, xvi + 254pp. $35.99","authors":"Richard J. Barry","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 4","pages":"479-480"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072602","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":"Martin E. Robinson, Augustine, Rahner, and Trinitarian Exegesis: An Exploration of Augustine’s Exegesis of Scripture as a Foundation for Rahner’s Trinitarian Project and Rule. London: T&T Clark, 2024, xiii + 230pp. $115.00","authors":"Alexander H. Pierce","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 4","pages":"490-492"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072547","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":"Fred Sanders, Union with Christ and the Life of Faith. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2025, xiv + 157pp. $22.99","authors":"Andrew Hofer, OP","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 4","pages":"474-476"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072614","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":"Sea Monsters in Soteriology: The Misconception of Gregory of Nyssa as a Ransom Theorist","authors":"Hannah Black","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Gregory of Nyssa's <i>Oratio catechetica magna</i>, Jesus functions as a ransom for humanity. Jesus is characterized as bait and fishhook while the enemy is characterized as greedy fish in a dramatic depiction of atonement. In contemporary atonement theology, Gregory of Nyssa is often cited as a ransom theorist because of this passage. While Gregory uses the concept of ransom, I argue that he is at least equally focused on the concept of the ‘sign of Jonah’, a popular motif in fourth-century art history. Gregory, far from being a ransom theorist, layers together ransom, the sign of Jonah and a range of other images in the <i>Oratio</i> to gesture toward the ultimately mysterious doctrine of salvation.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 4","pages":"401-414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072699","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":"Jared Michelson, The Doctrine of God and the Crisis of Modernity. London: T&T Clark, 2025, ix + 266pp. £61.20","authors":"Katherine Joy Austring","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 3","pages":"335-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373582","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":"Paul T. Nimmo, ed. Karl Barth and Reformed Theology: Tradition, Dialogue, and Construction. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2025, xviii + 300pp. $39.00","authors":"Donald K. McKim","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 3","pages":"342-344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373579","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":"Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy","authors":"Travis Dumsday","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12777","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr. Weinandy goes so far as to say the following: ‘Although Gregory Palamas wanted to clarify and enhance the biblical Christian notion of God, he, in the end, utterly failed, for he disfigured the very heart of the Christian gospel.’ In this response piece I first clarify the core distinctives of Palamism and then point out deficiencies in Weinandy's argument.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 3","pages":"242-266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12777","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373556","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":"Identifying Deification: Methodological Reflections in Response to the Oxford Handbook of Deification","authors":"Brendan A. Harris","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper offers a reflection on methodological issues surrounding the historical study of deification in response to the approach proposed in the <i>Oxford Handbook of Deification</i>. The paper contextualises the <i>OHD</i>'s proposal in light of previous attempts to address the question of how to define/identify the concept of deification. The <i>OHD</i>'s proposal offers a promising new approach to this issue that can be helpfully understood by analogy to Wittgenstein's concept of ‘family resemblance’. This paper argues in support of this view of deification as a ‘family resemblance concept’ while also suggesting an emendation to the <i>OHD</i>'s proposal by considering deification as involving claims about theological language.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 3","pages":"318-329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373631","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 Incarnational Aesthetic of David Brown☆","authors":"Filip Taufer","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The notion of incarnation has historically been a prominent concept for the acceptance of images and the interpretation of art within Christianity. A contemporary proponent of this line of reasoning about the theological potential of art is David Brown, who builds his theology of culture on the doctrine of incarnation. This article presents an examination of Brown’s aesthetic, utilising it as a case study of this approach. It addresses key tenets of Brown’s theological standpoint, including his concept of revelation through tradition, imagination and art, his advocacy for the re-enchantment of the world and the underlying rationales for this. The article extends beyond Brown to explore the rationale of the incarnational aesthetic in general.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 3","pages":"267-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373111","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":"Markus Mühling, Post-Systematic TheologyII: The Trinitarian Adventure of Love – Ecological Ways of Creation, Humaning and Its Displacement. Translated by Brandon Watson, Munich: Brill, 2024, 866pp. $186.00","authors":"Scott Harrower","doi":"10.1111/ijst.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 3","pages":"330-332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373580","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}