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- 20 Sep 2012
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Recovering the Reformation’s Ecumenical Vision of Redemption as Deification and Beatific Vision
Páginas: 3 - 24
Resumen
The beatific vision is widely perceived as a Roman Catholic doctrine. Many continue to view deification as a distinctively Eastern Orthodox doctrine incompatible with the Western theological tradition, especially its Protestant expressions. This essay will demonstrate that several Reformers of the first and second generation promoted a vision of redemption that culminates with deification and beatific vision. They affirmed these concepts without apology in confessional statements, dogmatic works, biblical commentaries, and polemical treatises. Attention will focus on figures in the Reformed tradition though one could produce similar surveys for the Lutheran and Anglican branches of the Reformation as well. John Calvin will receive extended treatment because some scholars dispute whether he affirmed deification. This essay presents important evidence thus far overlooked which should settle the question.
Palabras clave
- Beatific Vision
- Deification
- Zwingli
- Bucer
- Calvin
- Acceso abierto
Christ Our Light: The Expectation of Seeing God in Calvin’s Theology of the Christian Life
Páginas: 25 - 40
Resumen
The beatific vision plays a prominent role in the history of Christian ethics. Reformed ethics has an ambiguous relationship to this history, on two counts. First, it offers some qualified critiques of the role of vision in ordering ethical understanding, and second, on some accounts, Reformed ethics shares some responsibility for the loss of transcendence in the modern world, and the narrowing of the ethical field that has resulted from this loss. This essay argues that the vision of God in John Calvin’s understanding of the Christian life offers resources to defend a Reformed ethics from some recent detractors. Further, it provides a constructive contrast with the role of eschatology in a prominent strand of 20th century ethics. This argument is sustained through a close reading of Calvin’s biblical commentaries on the role of theophanies and the promise of the vision of God, and of Book III, chapters 6-10 of the
Palabras clave
- beatific vision
- ethics
- modernity
- transcendence
- Christian life
- John Calvin
- Acceso abierto
Girolamo Zanchi on Union with Christ and the Final Judgment
Páginas: 41 - 56
Resumen
Union with Christ was a key doctrine for second-generation Reformed theologian Girolamo Zanchi. As a Thomist, Zanchi shared similar elements with Thomas Aquinas in his understanding of salvation as
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- Union with Christ
- participation ()
- imputed righteousness
- infused righteousness
- Aquinas
- Zanchi
- final judgment
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Triune Agency, East and West: Uncreated Energies or Created Effects?
Páginas: 57 - 75
Resumen
The present paper situates the Western and Eastern models of divine agency within their respective ontological frameworks. I show how the Western conception of divine agency as the production of ‘created effects’ is rooted in a particular understanding of the relationship between transcendence and immanence, but also in a trinitarian ontology which understands God as pure actuality. On the other hand, the Eastern understanding of divine agency through the conceptuality of uncreated energies is similarly rooted in the real distinction between God’s nature and energies. Without trying to critique the Eastern model, I demonstrate one particular strength of the Western approach, namely its ability to distinguish between divine actions, which are inseparable, and divine missions, which are proper to the triune persons. Such a distinction enables us to affirm both the inseparability of triune operations, as well as the possibility of relations to distinct triune persons.
Palabras clave
- Created Effects
- Uncreated Energies
- Deification
- Divine Action
- Simplicity
- Trinity
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Demarcating Deification and the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit in Reformed Theology
Páginas: 77 - 98
Resumen
The recent interest in exploring whether authoritative figures of the Reformed tradition employed a concept of
Palabras clave
- deification
- indwelling
- Holy Spirit
- John Calvin
- Jonathan Edwards
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Baptizing Theosis : Sketching an Evangelical Account
Páginas: 99 - 115
Resumen
This essay explores some of the dogmatic challenges involved in developing a distinctively evangelical account of the doctrine of
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- theosis
- evangelical
- Biblicism
- crucicentrism
- conversionism
- activism