SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY
Volume 63 - Issue 04 - November 2010
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Research Articles
Anselm: Platonism, language and truth in Proslogion
Sigurd BaarkScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 379 - 397
doi:10.1017/S0036930610000475 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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When the Proslogion is read from within the context of Anselm's De Veritate it seems that Anselm's project is firmly based on theological premises. Anselm works with a two-fold conception of truth. Truth is first of all a quality inherent in the statement itself. It is the correctness (rectitudo) of the statement. Second, truth is the correspondence with the extra-linguistic reality. This second level of truth is accidental to the statement. What provides the link between extra-linguistic reality and the statement is the Word of God, which is the level of true reference, where original statements correspond to the original will of God in the creation. When Plato asks what true knowledge is in the Theatetus, the final answer seems to be that what is needed is a statement which carries its own truth as a certainty of Being and Unity within itself. However, no such statement is presented in the dialogue. The name of God in the Proslogion is such a statement which carries its own truth as a certainty of Being and Unity within itself, in that on the first level of truth (rectituto) it is impossible to deny. As the statement concerns the Being of God and cannot be denied it necessarily overflows into the second level of truth which is correspondence with extra-linguistic reality. Therefore, this article argues that Anselm develops a statement which fulfils the criterion of true knowledge presented in the Theatetus. He manages to do this from the position of faith, which includes a strict theological rationality.
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What is Christian orthodoxy according to Justin's Dialogue?
Michael J. ChoiScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 398 - 413
doi:10.1017/S0036930610000487 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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This article suggests that Christian orthodoxy according to Justin's Dialogue can be understood if one considers Justin's christology as stemming not merely from an opposition to Judaism (as Boyarin argues), but rather from the recognition of inadequate soteriology according to rabbinic teachings of Justin's time. This is most clearly delineated in Trypho's response as well as Justin's emphasis on the inclusive salvific efficacy of the crucifixion. Trypho's most enduring objection is not that there is another god explicated by Justin through Logos theology, nor that the Messiah is divine. Trypho resists the Christian message because he is most troubled by Justin's assertion that this Messiah died the death cursed by the Law of Moses.
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The influence of John Chrysostom's hermeneutics on John Calvin's exegetical approach to Paul's Epistle to the Romans
Najeeb George AwadScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 414 - 436
doi:10.1017/S0036930610000499 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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In this article, I look at the possible impact of John Chrysostom's exegetical approach upon John Calvin's biblical interpretation. I detect the traces of Chrysostom's hermeneutical approach to Paul's Letter to the Romans in John Calvin's reading of the same epistle. Why Paul's literature? Because both Chrysostom and Calvin are very fond of Paul and his thinking and consider him the major voice in the Bible. Why the Epistle to the Romans specifically? Because they both believe that this epistle is valuable for the church at all times. According to them, it is the first door to the understanding of the Good News of God's salvation as proclaimed in the Bible. I make this comparison on the basis of the following foundational thesis. If the first Protestant reformers were reliant on the church's exegetical tradition, and if they believed in the affinity of their biblical reading to a long tradition of reading conducted before them, the impact of the church fathers' exegetical methodology on the reformers' biblical interpretation should be part and parcel of any scholarship we do on the Reformation's hermeneutics.
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Discerning the Spirit: ambivalent assurance in the soteriology of Jonathan Edwards and Barthian correctives
W. Ross HastingsScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 437 - 455
doi:10.1017/S0036930610000505 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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Assurance of salvation is a matter of perennial pastoral concern and theological controversy. After the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards developed a doctrine of assurance based largely on discerning the work of the Spirit in the affections and actions of the professed believer. One might have expected from this theocentric, trinitarian and surprisingly participational theologian a robust doctrine of assurance and a joyful, other-centred spirituality. Ironically, however, profound ambiguities persisted within it which will be shown to arise from the predominantly pneumatic nature of his version of theosis, a blurring of the distinction between justification and sanctification, and the power of his predominantly psychological analogy of the Trinity. This article will therefore first present the main features of Jonathan Edwards theology which might have been expected to produce a high level of certainty concerning assurance, and then those which might militate against this certainty. Whilst Edwards did at times espouse the social analogy of the Trinity, his theosis is constructed predominantly within the psychological analogy. Innovatively modified though it was, because Edwards works within this framework, he overemphasises the pneumatological union of the saints with God, at the expense of the incarnational union of God with and for humanity in Christ. This results correspondingly in an inordinate reliance for assurance on the Spirit's work within the realm of human subjectivity, over against objective christological realities. In short, Edwards theology of assurance is, in the end, individualistic and anthropocentric.
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Habermas and Ratzinger on the Future of Religion
Michael WelkerScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 456 - 473
doi:10.1017/S0036930610000517 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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The article investigates the encounter between Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and J The Pre-Political Moral Foundations of a Liberal State personification of the Catholic faith the personification of liberal, individual and secular thought pathologies of reason and political and religious fanaticism.
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Book Reviews
Paul S. Chung, Karl Barth: God's Word in Action (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2008), pp. xvi + 504. $55.00 (pbk).
Paul Dafydd JonesScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 474 - 477
doi:10.1017/S0036930610000992 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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Neil B. MacDonald, Metaphysics and the God of Israel: Systematic Theology of the Old and New Testaments (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic and Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2006), pp. 248. £14.99; $24.99.
Patrick D. MillerScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 477 - 480
doi:10.1017/S003693060800433X Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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Peter Holmes, Becoming More Human: Exploring the Interface of Spirituality, Discipleship and Therapeutic Faith Community (Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2005), pp. 300. $24.99.
Mark LabbertonScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 480 - 481
doi:10.1017/S0036930608004523 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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Timothy Larsen, Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England (Oxford: OUP, 2006), pp. 317. £60.00, $125.00 (hardback).
Ian BradleyScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 482 - 483
doi:10.1017/S0036930608004511 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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Nancey Murphy, Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? Current Issues in Theology, 3 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. x + 154. £40.00 (hardback); £13.99, $24.99 (paperback).
Brian P. MadisonScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 483 - 486
doi:10.1017/S003693060800450X Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology. The Gifford Lectures, 2004. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006), pp. xviii + 347. $40.00.
Botond GaálScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 486 - 488
doi:10.1017/S0036930608004304 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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Roger Ruston, Human Rights and the Image of God (London: SCM Press, 2004), pp. viii + 312. £18.99.
G. M. NewlandsScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 488 - 490
doi:10.1017/S0036930608004353 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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C. John Sommerville, The Decline of the Secular University (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 147. $22.00.
Gordon GrahamScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 490 - 491
doi:10.1017/S0036930608004377 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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N. T. Wright, Judas and the Gospel of Jesus: Have we Missed the Truth about Christianity? (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), pp. 155. $18.99.
Matthew L. SkinnerScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 492 - 493
doi:10.1017/S0036930608004481 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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Elizabeth A. Castelli, Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), pp. 335. $44.00.
Craig HoveyScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 493 - 495
doi:10.1017/S003693060800447X Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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Mark D. Jordan, Meghan T. Sweeney and David M. Melliott (eds) Authorizing Marriage? Canon, Tradition and Critique in the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2006), pp. 208. £23.95, $39.95.
George NewlandsScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 495 - 498
doi:10.1017/S0036930608004493 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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Mark A. Torgerson An Architecture of Immanence: Architecture for Worship and Ministry Today (Grand Rapids, MI, and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2007), pp. xiii + 313. $24.00.
Gordon GrahamScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 498 - 499
doi:10.1017/S0036930608004572 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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James V. Brownson, The Promise of Baptism. An Introduction to Baptism in Scripture and the Reformed Tradition (Grand Rapids, MI, and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2006), pp. 237. £8.99, $16.00.
David F. WrightScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 500 - 501
doi:10.1017/S0036930608004468 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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Tom Smail, Like Father, Like Son: The Trinity Imaged in Our Humanity (Grand Rapids, MI and Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2005), pp. xiii + 304. £9.99; $20.00.
Christopher HolmesScottish Journal of Theology, Volume 63, Issue 04, November 2010, pp 501 - 503
doi:10.1017/S0036930608004456 Published online by Cambridge University Press 03 Sep 2010
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