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- 2284-7308
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 20 Sep 2012
- Częstotliwość wydawania
- 3 razy w roku
- Języki
- Angielski
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A Theology of Seeing, Experiencing, and Vision. An Editorial Introduction
Zakres stron: 3 - 18
Abstrakt
What may seem astonishing is the near dismissal of the beatific vision doctrine in the last 50+ years of biblical and theological scholarship in contrast to the emphasis given to it throughout church history. The state of theological scholarship is changing. In what follows, we set forth a short survey of a theology of the beatific vision, while also introducing the rest of the volume on the beatific vision and
Słowa kluczowe
- Beatific vision
- deification
- divinization
- Reformed
- biblical theology
- evangelical
- Otwarty dostęp
The Vision of God: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision and Resurrected Bodies
Zakres stron: 19 - 26
Abstrakt
The beatific vision is central to St. Thomas Aquinas’ doctrine of the soul’s enlightenment. In its vision of the essence of God, the soul/intellect achieves its
Słowa kluczowe
- Beatific vision
- soul/intellect
- soul-body union
- personhood
- bodily resurrection
- resurrected bodies
- eschatology
- teleology
- Otwarty dostęp
’To Behold its Own Delight’: The Beatific Vision in Irenaeus of Lyons
Zakres stron: 27 - 40
Abstrakt
The aim of this essay is to give a high-level overview of Irenaeus’s beatific vision, and to suggest that for him, the beatific vision has a temporal dimension (now and future) and a dimension of degree (lesser now, greater in the future). His beatific vision is witnessed as it intersects with at least four main ideas in his writing—the Trinity, anthropology, resurrection, and his eschatology. Irenaeus famously held that ‘the glory of God is living man, and the life of man is the vision of God’ (
Słowa kluczowe
- Irenaeus
- beatific vision
- seeing God
- Otwarty dostęp
’Blessed are the Dead Which Die in the Lord’: Andrew Fuller on the Beatific Vision
Zakres stron: 41 - 50
Abstrakt
This essay examines the funeral sermon given by the Baptist theologian Andrew Fuller (1754–1815) for his friend and deacon Beeby Wallis in 1792 as a vantage-point from which to pursue reflection on Fuller’s concept of heaven and the beatific vision. The sermon has two main themes: the rest and rewards of those who die in Christ. The essay examines how Fuller interprets both of these phrases and then, looking at the rest of Fuller’s corpus, notes that ultimately God himself is the believer’s reward.
Słowa kluczowe
- blessedness
- beatific vision
- Andrew Fuller
- rest
- rewards
- Beeby Wallis
- Otwarty dostęp
Deification in the Baptist Tradition: Christification of the Human Nature Through Adopted and Participatory Sonship Without Becoming Another Christ
Zakres stron: 51 - 73
Abstrakt
Some contemporary Baptists (Medley and Kharlamov) argue that the conservative Baptists in North America need to incorporate the concept of deification into their traditional soteriology because they failed to present the continual and transforming nature of salvation. However, many leading conservative Baptist systematicians (Garrett, Erickson, Demarest, and Keathley) demonstrate their concern about a possible pantheistic connotation of the doctrine of deification. Unlike the conservative Baptists, I argue for the necessity of working with the concept of deification in the traditional Baptist soteriology. The concept of deification is not something foreign to the Baptist tradition because Keach, Gill, Spurgeon, and Maclaren already demonstrated the patristic exchange formula ‘God became man so that man may become like God’. They considered the hypostatic union of two natures in Christ as the source and model of becoming like God or Christ, the true Image of God. Christians are called to be united with the glorified humanity of Christ by their adopted sonship and participation in the divine nature. Christification speaks of the real transformation of Christians in terms of a change in the mode of existence, not in nature. The four Baptists taught that Christian could participate in the communicable attributes of God, but not in the essence or incommunicable attributes of God. Therefore, Christification never produces another God-Man. Conservative Baptists do not have to compromise their traditional commitment to
Słowa kluczowe
- Deification
- the Baptist tradition
- Christification
- Keach
- Gill
- Spurgeon
- Maclaren
- justification
- and the Palamite distinction
- Otwarty dostęp
Radical, Baptist Eschatology: The Eschatological Vision of Vavasor Powell, Hanserd Knollys, and Benjamin Keach
Zakres stron: 75 - 93
Abstrakt
Amidst the politically-charged climate of seventeenth-century England, a small, but influential makeshift group of Baptist divines developed an eschatological system that both encouraged their congregations to greater holiness and threatened the very existence of the proto-denomination. Even as most of the nascent group of dissenting congregations known as Baptists sought acceptance by the more mainstream dissent, those divines who accepted this particular form of millenarianism garnered unwanted attention from the authorities as they pressed remarkably close to the line of radical dissidence. Three of those Baptist divines—Vavasor Powell, Hanserd Knollys, and Benjamin Keach—provide helpful insights both into the range of millenarianism adopted by this group of Baptists and into the legitimacy of the charges of radicalism. This article examines the published works of these three ministers, comparing their visions for the eschatological future and analyzing the charges of radicalism placed against them by their contemporaries.
Słowa kluczowe
- Deification
- English Baptists
- Millenarianism
- Powell
- Knollys
- Keach