{"title":"Scott MacDougall, The Shape of Anglican Theology: Faith Seeking Wisdom (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. v + 153. $94.00","authors":"Robert MacSwain","doi":"10.1017/S0036930623000236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930623000236","url":null,"abstract":"ramental theology, the one found in Confessions, in polemical dialogue with the Donatists. At the same time, he intensifies his pride–humility pairing to address the fact that the Donatists possess in most respects the true faith, yet have separated themselves from Christ. Monroe’s book is not only a rich exposition of Augustine’s soteriological development, but also an inspiring spiritual account. The reader of Monroe’s book will gain insight into our own predicament and the way in which Christ and the sacraments are fitting instruments of our (gradual) healing. The result is not only a splendid work of scholarship, but also – Augustine would be pleased! – a splendid work of Catholic spiritual instruction.","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":"76 1","pages":"386 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46343610","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":"Pui Him Ip, Origen and the Emergence of Divine Simplicity before Nicaea (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022), pp. xx + 276. $85.00","authors":"Grayden McCashen","doi":"10.1017/S0036930623000194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930623000194","url":null,"abstract":"This book is a revision of Ip ’ s Cambridge dissertation, which was overseen by Rowan Williams, the author of the book ’ s foreword. It nuances the doctrine of divine simplicity for modern systematic and philosophical theology, where simplicity is often understood in pro-Nicene/Augustinian or Aristotelian-Thomistic terms, by elucidating its historical development from Plato ’ s Republic through Origen. The two chief insights of this historical study are, first, that divine simplicity came to be formed and accepted in Christian theological discourse as a doctrine with ethical as well as metaphysical significance, and, second, that while modern commentators have seen the doctrine as inevit-ably leading to modalism, its historical development was in fact in opposition to the analogous third-century theology, Monarchianism. This book ’ s seven chapters have a tripartite structure, covering the philosophical background of divine simplicity (chapters 1 – 2), simplicity and trinitarian theology (here specifically, ‘ the nature of the Father-Son relation ’ rather than ‘“ fully Trinitarian ” theologies ’ [p.49]) before Origen (chapters 3 – 4) and finally, Origen ’ s the-ology (chapters 5 – 7). Chapter 1 is a narrow but able discussion of simplicity in Plato, focusing on the locus classicus of divine simplicity in Plato ’ s corpus, which Ip maintains is Republic 380d","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":"76 1","pages":"299 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49536145","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":"Kate Jackson-Meyer, Tragic Dilemmas in Christian Ethics (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2022), pp. xi + 195. $49.95","authors":"Kate Jackson-Meyer","doi":"10.1017/S0036930623000145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930623000145","url":null,"abstract":"religion and the promotion of false religion for the sake of entrapping people in pride. Overall, this study is an excellent contribution to Augustine’s demonology. Not only is Wiebe clear in his aims and limits, but he opens up a number of possible avenues for further work. He concludes by challenging contemporary readers not to dismiss Augustine’s theology of the demonic but to consider the implications of exposing and defeating false gods today. While this is primarily historical study, Wiebe’s deft engagement with contemporary thought positions this book as valuable reading not only for scholars of Augustine or early Christian demonology, but for anyone thinking through how personified forms of evil might fit into theological systems.","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":"76 1","pages":"288 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44460829","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":"Christopher R. J. Holmes, A Theology of the Christian Life: Imitating and Participating in God (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2021), pp. xvii + 171. $24.99.","authors":"P. Dominiak","doi":"10.1017/s0036930623000157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0036930623000157","url":null,"abstract":"This book ‘ unfold[s] a program of spiritual renewal founded on some of the essential names or attributes of the divine being ’ (p. xii). The core idea is that the doctrine of God is the wellspring of Christian life. This core idea unpacks two essentially biblical motifs, namely that Christians are called to imitate God, and that they are called to participate in God ’ s manner of existence. As such, Holmes expands upon a wider contemporary retrieval of a pre-modern sensibility that casts theology as a spiritual exercise rather than as an abstracted, intellectual pursuit divorced from faithful practices aimed at human transformation. ‘ Scripture and the premodern tradition ’ , Holmes writes, ‘ remind us that Christian life is the setting for the doctrine of God ’ (p. 45). The book forms a primer in how doctrine is ‘ descriptive ’ and ‘ imperative ’ , shaping Christian practices and being shaped in turn by the goal of the Christian life as it seeks to live the life of God. Holmes divides the book into two parts that develop its core idea and two motifs. The first part is comprised of five chapters that in turn address how five divine names or attributes – being, simplicity, perfection, infinity and immutability – shape the Christian life. Each chapter explores how each divine name both asserts a radical ontological distinction between God and creatures and yet also express attributes which believers are mysteriously called to imitate and participate in as they become ‘ friends ’ with God. The grammar of participation unlocks the intelligibility of this apparent paradox. While the divine names only belong essentially and properly to God, creatures enjoy a participated similitude because the divine nature is their under-pinning first and final cause. The second part is comprised of three chapters that go on to consider how the divine names shape thinking about and imitating Christ, virtue as the ‘ personal dimension ’ of the doctrine of God (pp. 125, 142), and ecclesiology. The first part of","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":"76 1","pages":"290 - 291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42669755","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}
Cynthia A Stappenbeck, Julia F Hammett, Natasha K Gulati, Debra Kaysen
{"title":"Preliminary Efficacy of a Web-Based Alcohol and Emotion Regulation Intervention on Intimate Partner Aggression Among College Women.","authors":"Cynthia A Stappenbeck, Julia F Hammett, Natasha K Gulati, Debra Kaysen","doi":"10.1037/vio0000458","DOIUrl":"10.1037/vio0000458","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Intimate partner aggression (IPA), encompassing psychological and physical aggression, is a public health concern due to its high rates among young adults. Research and theory connect heavy drinking and emotion regulation (ER) difficulties to IPA and highlight their potential role in reducing IPA. A web-based intervention combining alcohol reduction strategies with ER skills demonstrated initial efficacy at reducing heavy drinking and improving ER abilities among college women with sexual assault victimization histories.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The present study represents a secondary analysis of this brief web-based intervention to evaluate its preliminary efficacy on IPA. The sample comprised 200 heavy drinking college women with histories of sexual assault victimization randomized to an assessment only control or the intervention consisting of 14 brief online alcohol reduction and ER skill building modules administered daily over a two-week period. The analytic sample included 103 women who reported their psychological and physical IPA at both the 1- and 6-month follow-up surveys.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After controlling for alcohol use, repeated measures mixed models examining changes from baseline to 6-month follow-up by condition revealed a significant time-by-intervention interaction effect on psychological IPA. Women who received the intervention had a significant decrease in psychological IPA from baseline to 6-month follow-up; there was no change in psychological IPA among women in the control condition. There was no significant effect of the intervention on physical IPA.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Reducing alcohol use and improving ER skills may be beneficial in helping women cope with relational conflict, thereby decreasing their use of psychological IPA.</p>","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":"66 1","pages":"258-266"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10919120/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78943552","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":"Oda Wischmeyer, Love as Agape: The Early Christian Concept and Modern Discourse (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021), pp. xvii + 317. $69.99","authors":"Susan E. Hylen","doi":"10.1017/S0036930622000461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930622000461","url":null,"abstract":"indeed have much to say to these issues, but they are, at best, unevenly developed in relationship to the Swiss theologian’s own thought. Nevertheless, Hauerwas helpfully pushes back against the view that Barth’s critique of the liberal tradition, including liberal theology, meant that he was an anti-humanist. Barth wanted to promote a more radical humanism rooted in who God is in Jesus Christ, and thus who human beings are called to be, and Hauerwas certainly draws out aspects of this dimension of Barth’s thought. Even if this has become a well-worn counter-argument by those sympathetic to Barth, it is gratifying to see how one of the most influential and provocative theological voices of the last forty years is able to work in the spirit of a giant of twentieth-century Protestant thought, to not only illuminate that figure, but to offer an arguably more nuanced, christologically explicit account of Christian engagement with the world.","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":"76 1","pages":"181 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45555070","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 C. Clark and Marcus Peter Johnson, A Call to Christian Formation: How Theology Makes Sense of Our World (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2021), pp. xiii + 208. $22.99","authors":"Lee C. Barrett","doi":"10.1017/S0036930622000539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930622000539","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":"76 1","pages":"191 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42114595","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":"Lyle D. Bierma, Font of Pardon and New Life: John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism (Oxford: OUP, 2021), pp. ix + 267. £64.00/$99.00","authors":"Julie Canlis","doi":"10.1017/s0036930622000540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0036930622000540","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44026,"journal":{"name":"SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY","volume":"76 1","pages":"189 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49552080","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}