{"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}
{"title":"Frank Macchia, Tongues of Fire: A Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2023, ix + 458pp. $69.00","authors":"Christopher Whyte","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12769","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 3","pages":"428-431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725640","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":"Phillip A. Hussey. Supralapsarianism Reconsidered: Jonathan Edwards and the Reformed Tradition. London: T&T Clark, 2024, 244pp. $115.00","authors":"Ryan M. McGraw","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12773","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 3","pages":"426-428"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725360","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":"Alex Fogleman, Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023, xiv + 256pp. $110.00","authors":"Thomas L. Humphries Jr.","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 3","pages":"423-426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725359","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":"Fellipe Do Vale, Gender as Love: A Theological Account of Human Identity, Embodied Desire, and Our Social Worlds. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023, xii + 272pp. $35.00","authors":"David Bennett","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12774","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 3","pages":"436-439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725361","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":"Teresa Morgan, Trust in Atonement. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2024, xi + 267pp. $39.99","authors":"Adam J. Johnson","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 3","pages":"431-433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725692","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 Nicene Line as Structural Principle for Christian Doctrine","authors":"Fred Sanders","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12765","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nicaea (both the 325 council and the creed that by 381 perfected its work) instantiates a structural principle for Christian doctrine, a principle called here the Nicene line. Its influence is evident in the main contours of doctrine, and it exerts continuing guidance for the teaching and research of individual theologians. The line that Nicaea draws is clearest in the second article of the Nicene Creed, which establishes the Son's particular filial identity with reference to his eternal relation to the Father before narrating his economic action of creation and of incarnation ‘for us and our salvation'. Construing the events of the New Testament as the disclosure of divine sonship, Nicaea thus draws a line between God and creation, locating the blessed Trinity above the line precisely in order to describe the divine work of transformatively blessing creatures below the line. This principle is classically elaborated in pro-Nicene theologies (illustrated here by Theodoret of Cyrrhus), and is already evident in Scripture (illustrated here by the argument of Ephesians).</p>","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 4","pages":"464-479"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145243042","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}
Graham Tomlin, Christine Schliesser, Frederike van Oorschot
{"title":"Public Theology and Cultural Witness: Introduction","authors":"Graham Tomlin, Christine Schliesser, Frederike van Oorschot","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"3-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147280926","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":"Richard Cross, Christology and Metaphysics in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, xxii + 333pp. $130.00","authors":"Piotr J. Małysz","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":"27 3","pages":"420-423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725691","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}