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SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY Pub Date : 2023-05-15 DOI:10.1017/s0036930623000157

P. Dominiak

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这本书“展开了一个建立在神的一些基本名字或属性上的精神更新计划”(第十二页)。核心思想是上帝的教义是基督徒生活的源泉。这个核心思想揭示了圣经的两个基本主题，即基督徒被召唤去模仿上帝，他们被召唤去参与上帝的存在方式。因此，福尔摩斯扩展了对前现代情感的更广泛的当代检索，将神学视为一种精神练习，而不是一种抽象的，与旨在改变人类的忠实实践分离的智力追求。福尔摩斯写道:“圣经和前现代传统提醒我们，基督徒的生活是上帝教义的背景”(第45页)。这本书形成了教义如何“描述性”和“命令性”的入门，塑造了基督教的实践，并被基督徒生活的目标所塑造，因为它寻求过上帝的生活。福尔摩斯将全书分为两部分，阐述了全书的核心思想和两个主题。第一部分由五章组成，依次讲述了五个神圣的名字或属性——存在、简单、完美、无限和永恒——如何塑造基督徒的生活。每一章都探讨了每个神的名字是如何在上帝和受造物之间断言一个根本的本体论区别，同时也表达了信徒们被神秘地召唤去模仿和参与的属性，因为他们成为了上帝的“朋友”。参与的语法揭示了这个明显悖论的可理解性。虽然神的名字只在本质上和适当地属于上帝，但受造物享受一种参与的相似性，因为神的本性是他们的首要和最终原因。第二部分由三章组成，继续考虑神的名字如何塑造对基督的思考和模仿，美德作为上帝教义的“个人维度”(第125页，第142页)，以及教会学。第一部分

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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.

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

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