{"title":"The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation , by René van Woudenberg","authors":"Gert van den Brink","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78249568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jesus and the God of Classical Theism: Biblical Christology in Light of the Doctrine of God , by Steven J. Duby","authors":"K. Drake","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90287064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Green Theology. An Eco-Feminist and Ecumenical Perspective , by Trees van Montfoort","authors":"Iris Veerbeek","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"120 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77093125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saving Animals?","authors":"N. Marais","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 ‘Saving’ language is often employed in relation to animals—both in conservation campaigns and in animal theology—and therefore the question as to how we speak about animal redemption is arguably of both rhetorical and theological importance. This article considers the rhetorical and hermeneutical dynamics of ‘redemption talk’ in the work of two animal theologians, Andrew Linzey and David Clough. Although language alone may not save animals, cultivating life-giving theological grammars that make for the flourishing of all living beings is arguably a slow and deep and important work that has the capacity to go the distance. Rhetoric could herein become a partner to ethical and practical work that shares the concern for the safety of and care for animals, as well as a resource that could shape how the redemption of animals could be imagined publicly. In short, this article seeks to demonstrate that how we speak about animal salvation matters.","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90817050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Absolute Person and the Moral Experience: A Study in Neo-Calvinism , by Nathan D. Shannon","authors":"Thomas Haviland-Pabst","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85126653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing Christian Ethics: Core Convictions for Christians Today , by David P. Gushee","authors":"Steven C. van den Heuvel","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79909546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"T&T Clark Handbook of Thomas F. Torrance , by Paul D. Molnar and Myk Habets, eds.","authors":"Bruce Ritchie","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90354080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nature as Guide: Wittgenstein and the Renewal of Moral Theology , by David Goodill","authors":"Bruce R. Pass","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80689067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Eschatological Perspectives on the Loss of Biodiversity and Extinction","authors":"E. Conradie","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the loss of biodiversity and species extinction from the perspective of Christian eschatology and, more specifically, the hope for eternal life. A thought experiment on the coexistence of various hominid and hominin species is entertained in order to gain some clarity on the nature of the problems posed by extinction. The question is then raised whether any of the traditional eschatological symbols of the reign of God, a final judgment, the resurrection of the dead, or eternal life can be retrieved to address the problems posed by extinction. It is argued that each of these symbols poses serious difficulties in this regard while there is an apparent contradiction embedded in the notion of eternal life. This is not resolved through notions of ‘objective immortality,’ as this by itself eternalizes the injustices of history. With Joseph Sittler, it is argued that only some notion of cosmic redemption can suffice, but how this is to be imagined remains elusive.","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85472041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ending Extinction","authors":"Eva van Urk-Coster","doi":"10.1163/15697312-01702004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01702004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Given that today’s mass extinction of species is driven by human activity, it matters profoundly how the place and role of humans vis-à-vis the earth’s biodiversity is construed. In this regard, Anglican theologian Christopher Southgate argues that the idea of being created in God’s image (imago Dei) results in an eschatological calling to counter both anthropogenic and natural extinction as co-redeemers with God. How should Southgate’s perspective be evaluated in light of the ever-worsening extinction crisis and our attempts to mitigate it through conservation efforts? To answer this question, this article connects systematic theology with ethnographic research in the environmental humanities. In particular, it engages the work of philosopher and anthropologist Thom van Dooren on ‘extinction stories’ in order to explore how human and nonhuman life is interrelated in conservation. It is argued that speaking of humans as co-redeemers is problematic, given the crucial difference between God’s saving and redeeming work and human faulty and contingent ‘doings’ in conservation that remain ambiguous.","PeriodicalId":53817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reformed Theology","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79365650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}