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We need to talk – a meander
Get PDFDr Ian Fraser reminds us, that despite modern cultural assumptions to the contrary, the Book of Genesis states that human beings are expressly forbidden ‘to work their own will on the world’. We are to fulfil God’s will, not ours, for the development of the world. On the basis of Genesis, he argues, human beings are not simply to subdue the Earth, but to take care of it and cultivate it. This cherishing of the Earth and its living beings is, therefore, our human responsibility. Referring to the development of the universe, Fraser explores the meaning of ‘creation’, and argues for the importance of dialogue between the disciplines. He returns to the text of the first chapters of Genesis which presages the history contained in the Old and New Testaments and concludes by offering a further five cosmological points for further consideration
“Law and Gospel in Emil Brunner’s Earlier Dialectical Theology” by David Andrew Gilland
No full textReview ofDavid Andrew Gilland, Law and Gospel in Emil Brunner’s Earlier Dialectical Theology (T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology, v. 22; London: Bloomsbury, 2013), pp. xiv + 285. £19.99
To Know the World is to Advocate for It
Get PDFThis review essay is a response to the graduate seminar on Cosmopolitan Anthropology convened by Kristin Kuutma at the University of Tartu, Estonia on the 14th and 15th of January 2015. The three presenters at the seminar were Nigel Rapport (University of St Andrews), Huon Wardle (University of St Andrews) and Andrew Irving (University of Manchester)
Marilynn Robinson’s Calvinist apology in fiction and essay
Get PDFWhile Calvinism has not fared particularly well in the mainstream Zeitgeist of late, Péter Pásztor’s paper reflects on how it has recently found a major apologist in the work of the novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson. He makes the case that Robinson’s fiction and essays attempt no less than a re-furnishing of Protestantism, Calvinism in particular, with the intellectual poignancy it used to bear in Western thought and imagination
Practical theology: The past, present and future of a concept
Get PDFThis paper argues that if practical theology is to be sustainable in the academy it must engage more closely with Scripture, doctrine and tradition and, in so doing, attempt to address the whole of material life. More particularly, he argues, there are dangers in a purely pastoral understanding of practical theology, since the temptation is to derive this from secular sources. Practical theology, however, is also closely related to Christian ethics, opening the further possibility that one of the tasks of practical theology might be to study and critique aspects of the secular social and political order. Turning to the nature of practice itself, Grumett reflects on Alasdair MacIntyre’s definition of practice as a complex, socially rooted, co-operative activity, through which goods intrinsic to that endeavour are actualised in the course of attaining the standards of excellence native to that activity. Grumett suggests that MacIntyre is too dependent on Aristotelian ethics which are, ultimately, epistemologically self-referential, proposing instead a proper dualism of practice and doctrine. The implications of practice as a (pre)condition for understanding are then unfolded in a profoundly illuminating way
Gregory of Nazianzus: On being a theologian
Get PDFDr Eirini Artemi’s paper explores the teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (329–390 AD) on exactly what it is that qualifies someone to be called a theologian. Focusing particularly on his Twentieth Oration, On Theology, she places his thought on the subject against the background of a period in which many heresies had recently made their appearance, and when many ‘pseudo-theologians’ had come to prominence. Her paper explains why, at a time when orthodoxy was being severely tested, it was crucial that Gregory should set out the required conditions if someone was to become a true theologian and to connect closely with the vision of God
"Advancing Practical Theology: Critical Discipleship for Disturbing Times" by Eric Stoddart
No full textReview of Eric Stoddart, Advancing Practical Theology: Critical Discipleship for Disturbing Times (London: SCM, 2014
The View From Without: Syria & Its Neighbours
Get PDFThree contributions by scholars on Syria are included in this issue:1 - The Syrian Civil War and Turkey-Syria-Iran Relations by Özden Zeynep Oktav2 - Sunni Islamists in Tripoli and the Asad regime 1966-2014 by Tine Gade 3 - Coping with Asad: Lebanese Prime Ministers’ Strategies by Taku OsoegawaThe focus is on recent political dynamics involving Turkey and Lebanon, and the findings consistently point to just how charged and often hostile Syria’s relationships with its neighbours have been
