{"title":"Gregory J. Liston, Kingdom Come: An Eschatological Third Article Ecclesiology. London: T&T Clark, 2022, 218pp. $35.95","authors":"Aaron P. Edwards","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12723","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"26 4","pages":"479-482"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404682","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":"Steven Edward Harris, Refiguring Resurrection: A Biblical and Systematic Eschatology. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2023, 318pp. $64.99","authors":"Myk Habets","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12727","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"26 4","pages":"473-475"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404540","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":"John E. Thiel, Now and Forever: A Theological Aesthetics of Time. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023, 203pp. $50.00","authors":"R. T. Mullins","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12722","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12722","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"26 4","pages":"487-489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194629","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 Colophon of Eternal Beatitude: Petrus van Mastricht, the Visio Dei, and the Resurrection of the Body","authors":"Daniel Lee Hill","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12721","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12721","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent work in eschatology has sought to retrieve the doctrine of the beatific vision, one that has served as one of the predominant views of the eschatological life throughout church history. Yet the doctrine has been criticized for its reported marginalization of the human body. This essay seeks to provide a modest contribution and response to this objection through the retrieval of 17th-century theologian Petrus van Mastricht. I argue that humanity's telos can be conceived of as complex involving a particular mode of life with God that the visio Dei makes possible, one which requires the resurrection and glorification of the body.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"46-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12721","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141869050","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 Spirit as Plural Person","authors":"Olivia Bustion","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12719","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12719","url":null,"abstract":"<p>According to plural person theory, a group of close friends can act together not just distributively, as separate individuals all at once, but also corporately, as a nonmetaphorical plural person supervening on the friends. This article proposes that the Spirit is a plural person in precisely this sense. Modeling the Spirit as a plural person not only secures the Spirit's personhood and full divinity; it also provides a new conceptual scheme for interpreting the relationship between divine grace and human agency along non-competitive lines. What is more, it makes sense of existing Christian practices, including Ignatian contemplation, evangelical quiet time, and Quaker waiting worship.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"94-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12719","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141869051","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":"Will the Stars Sing on the Last Day? Cosmology and Eschatology†","authors":"Michael Root","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12720","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12720","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Changes in the scientific picture of the origin and destiny of the physical universe present particular challenges to Christian eschatology. Both the great expansion of our picture of the size and age of the universe and the recent perception of an inexorable progression of the universe toward heat death in the far future alter the secular understanding of the universe with which Christian theology engages. In this essay, these challenges are considered in relation to how the theologian is to understand the eschatological role of physical objects far removed from interaction with humanity, for example, distant stars. Anthropocentric understandings of their role become implausible in light of recent changes in cosmology. This essay explores the traditional doctrine of bodily resurrection as a potential key to understanding the eschatological significance of stars. The insistence that the risen body is both radically transformed and yet numerically identical with the present body provides some parameters for understanding the nature of an eschatologically transformed universe and how its flourishing might be a witness to the glory of God.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"31-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141341634","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":"Loving and Letting: A Constructive Reading of Genesis 1","authors":"J. W. Olson","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12710","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12710","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay evaluates possible meanings of God's creative ‘let’ in Genesis 1 in order to evaluate how God's generative love of creation forms a paradigm for human love. Beginning with the work of philosopher John Haugeland, who gives four possible meanings of letting-be in his reading of Heidegger, this essay argues that creation is best understood in terms of Haugeland's model of letting-be as <i>enabling</i>, in which what is created are conditions of possibility rather than determined outcomes. Understanding God's relationship to creation as making-possible then sets the stage for characterizing right human relations as superabundantly generative rather than simply the absence of conflict.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 2","pages":"148-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12710","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141373487","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":"Christ the Mediator and Head of Angels in Calvin's Theology","authors":"Arthur Rankin","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12711","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12711","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Though Calvin is averse to theological speculation, he is the first to claim that Christ is Mediator and Head of Angels. This often-overlooked office is present consistently throughout the various editions of the <i>Institutes</i> and can be found in his treatises, commentaries, catechism, and various sermons. This paper argues that Christ's mediation of angels is a form of ontological mediation that serves as the logical foundation for his redemptive mediation of the Elect. Sin is an intensification of a preexisting problem that requires the Son to be the <i>medius</i> and Mediator between God and creation because of his unique position in the Trinitarian <i>taxis</i> as the begotten one. This overlooked office places Calvin's theology of mediation in a greater cosmic context where the triune God is uniting all things to himself typified in the angels and the Elect.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"26 4","pages":"367-385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12711","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140885906","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 Decline and Retrieval of Divine Incomprehensibility in Modern Reformed Theology","authors":"Jack O'Grady","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12713","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12713","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the way in which two modern Reformed theologians, Charles Hodge and Herman Bavinck, articulate their theologies of divine incomprehensibility and the knowability of God in radically different ways, against the backdrop of post-Kantian epistemology. This contrast will draw attention to why the doctrine of divine incomprehensibility has diminished in influence in modern Reformed theology, while also making some suggestions as to how it can be retrieved in order to supplement and strengthen contemporary discussions on the doctrine of God in the Reformed tradition.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"26 4","pages":"386-408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12713","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140885976","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":"Life-giving Flesh: Deity, Humanity, and the Efficacy of the Atonement – Part Two","authors":"Steven J. Duby","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12708","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12708","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The life-giving power of Christ's flesh and the unique efficacy of his atoning death is grounded in the fact that the flesh belongs to a divine person, the eternal Word. The previous article critiqued an attempt to explain the life-giving power of Christ's flesh by way of a divine suffering on the cross and instead sought to ground the efficacy of Christ's atoning death in the proper and instrumental power of Christ's humanity. This second article argues that the efficacy of Christ's atoning death is grounded also in the infinite worth of the ransom that he pays on the cross. The claim that the infinite worth of Christ's ransom is derived from his deity, which itself does not suffer or die, will be articulated in dialogue with several patristic, medieval, and early modern theologians.</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"26 4","pages":"452-467"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140808787","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}