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Looking back, looking forward
Get PDFProfessor Plantinga Pauw was invited to give a perspective on the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America’s adoption of a book of confessions rather than a single confessional standard. Her paper speaks of her experience of using the PC(USA)’s Book of Confessions both as a member of the church and as a teacher of doctrinal theology in a Presbyterian seminary. It describes the church’s current Book of Confessions, examines the reasons for its adoption, and provides examples of the benefits she believes it has provided to the church
The Role of the Anthropologist in the Context of a Public Health Crisis
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Learning about God: Theological education as formation for mission
Get PDFThis paper describes how current models of theological education frequently fail to meet the expectations of today’s students in terms of both information and formation: the way knowledge is conveyed by institutions is too often based on traditional academical methods rather than ones appropriate to the twenty-first century; and the process is too rarely accompanied by opportunities to grow in spiritual wisdom. The paper then goes on to offer one model of how a holistic approach to mission-oriented learning can take place
What can conceptual art teach us about whether or not art needs to be aesthetic?
Get PDFConceptual art, and its rejection of the aesthetic, poses a number of challenges to ‘traditional’ deοnitions of art. This paper considers whether art is necessarily aesthetic and what problems arise if we accept that it is not. My investigation will initially ask whether conceptual art (CA) can even be a kind of art, and will then discuss whether CA is necessarily aesthetic. In section 2, I present a range of existing views on this matter in order to show that conceptual art should indeed be considered a kind of art. I offer an evaluation of these views in section 3 before arguing that art in general is not necessarily aesthetic. In order to show this, I present arguments in support of the propositions that (i) CA is a kind of art and that (ii) CA is not aesthetic. Section 4 comprises a proposal suggesting that artworks are not necessarily aesthetic but rather are necessarily experienced in person. I then brieπy address a number of potential difοculties that accepting such a view might appear to entail
Has Horowitz Split Level-Splitting?
Get PDFWhat is to be done when οrst- and higher-order evidence point in opposite directions concerning the truth about p? The traditional response goes that ideally, rational agents ought to privilege one evidential order over the other, such that an agent’s belief that p co-varies with her total evidence. But the level-splitter zigs where others zag. Since each evidential order appears perfectly good in isolation, she supposes her credences should be partitioned accordingly. On penalty of believing against her total evidence, she responds to the pull of both evidential orders. In other words, she is epistemically akratic. Sophie Horowitz has recently argued that level-splitting views are almost universally irrational. To show as much, she points to some cases of peer disagreement where a pro-akrasia verdict requires (irrationally) concluding that S’s evidence is misleading. The purpose of this paper is to deny that an on-off conception of agent-speciοc defeaters is called for: that is, I argue that peer disagreement need not necessarily banish οrst-order evidence to the realm of the misleading, and that a different approach is available to the pro-akrasia crowd
“Can ‘White’ People Be Saved? Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission” edited by Love L. Sechrest, Johnny Ramiréz-Johnson and Amos Yong
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Love L. Sechrest, Johnny Ramiréz-Johnson and Amos Yong, eds., Can “White” People Be Saved? Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission (Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2018), pp. xii + 336, ISBN 978-0830851041. £23.9
Recovering Reformed catholicity
Get PDFThis article begins by outlining some of the questions raised within the Church of Scotland in recent decades concerning the role and value of the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) as the church’s subordinate standard. In addressing these, the article asserts that the content and teaching of the WCF continue to be relevant for Reformed churches today. By examining the work that went into the drafting of the WCF, the article argues that the cohesive picture of Reformed orthodoxy and catholicity that the WCF presents has immense practical value for contemporary ministry and church renewal in a challenging cultural moment
