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The University of Edinburgh
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Publisher: Brill
Date: 22-01-2018
Publisher: Brill
Date: 12-06-2019
DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01301009
Abstract: This article is intended to assess Karl Barth’s appreciative use of Herman Bavinck’s view of God’s incomprehensibility in Church Dogmatics II /1. The main argument is that despite Barth’s appreciative gesture, Barth in fact offers an unfaithful or mistaken reading of Bavinck’s view. Whereas Bavinck makes God’s knowability the presupposition of the ine incomprehensibility, Barth renders the veracious knowledge of God predicated upon God’s incomprehensibility, which is in turn grounded in God’s hiddenness. In any event, Barth’s appreciative gesture toward Bavinck should not cover up their ergent lines of reasoning in demonstrating the doctrine of God’s incomprehensibility.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-01-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-06-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-03-2023
DOI: 10.1177/09539468231163002
Abstract: This article seeks to explore the idea of artificial moral agency from a theological perspective. By drawing on the Reformed theology of archetype-ectype, it will demonstrate that computational artefacts are the ectype of human moral agents and, consequently, have a partial moral agency. In this light, human moral agents mediate and extend their moral values through computational artefacts, which are ontologically connected with humans and only related to limited particular moral issues. This moral leitmotif opens up a way to deploy carebots into Christian pastoral care while maintaining the human agent's uniqueness and responsibility in pastoral caregiving practices.
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-06-2018
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 08-2017
Abstract: T. C. Chao (Zhao Zichen, 1888–1979) was a leading Chinese theologian of the twentieth century. His Yesu Zhuan is a well-known book in China and accepted by many Chinese people as a way to know who Jesus is. Given this, this article will examine Chao's Christology in Yesu Zhuan. It will first introduce the historical context of Yesu Zhuan, including national crisis, cultural crisis and anti-Christian movements. Then, Chao's purpose and the methodology of writing Yesu Zhuan will be elaborated, which will be followed by a theological appraisal of Chao's methodology and Christology in Yesu Zhuan. By so doing, the article will demonstrate that under the influence of Western liberal theology and with the effort to indigenise Christianity in China, Chao actually portrays a ‘Jesus’ who is the most prominent Sage, the Sage of sages. That means he delineates a possible way in which Christian faith may be understood in Chinese culture. However, the ‘Jesus’ in Yesu Zhuan is a mere human being without ine nature. In the end, the Christology in Yesu Zhuan diametrically contradicts Chalcedonian Christology.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-05-2019
Publisher: Brill
Date: 27-03-2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-01-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-05-2019
Publisher: Brill
Date: 25-10-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-04-2018
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01103017
Abstract: This article aims to make a comparison between Herman Bavinck, a leading neo-Calvinist theologian, and Mou Zongsan, arguably the most innovative New Confucian philosopher, on human nature and its quality, and to build a dialogue between them. Bavinck sets forth a theocentric explication on human nature, that is the imago Dei , which was created, is fallen and can only be restored in Jesus Christ who is the true imago Dei . In contrast, Mou anthropocentrically expounds human nature, which immanentizes the heavenly decree and is innately good. Despite their fundamental differences, a dialogue can still be articulated by differing Bavinck’s God from Kant’s God, the latter of which is critiqued by Mou.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-11-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-07-2017
Publisher: Brill
Date: 07-12-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-11-2016
Publisher: Brill
Date: 28-12-2022
DOI: 10.1163/27726606-20220010
Abstract: This article aims to retrieve Abraham Kuyper’s theology to develop Reformed theology in mainland China. It shall argue that Kuyper’s concern about the varying contexts where theology is practiced shows an underdeveloped proto-Reformed contextual theology. Nonetheless, his idea of common grace serves as a conceptual apparatus through which his proto-Reformed contextual theology can underpin the construction of Sino-Reformed theology, a Reformed theology that is organically united with the history of Christianity while taking root in Chinese culture and interacting closely with the Chinese context. Such a contextualised Reformed theology can make Reformed faith an indigenous plant in the garden of Chinese Christianity on the one hand and prove conducive to the development of an organic Reformed community and theology on the other.
Publisher: Brill
Date: 13-04-2018
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 07-2021
Abstract: Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) describes the twofold scientific calling of the Church. First, the Church needs to read the historic Reformed confessions contextually and distill the Reformed principles to meet its contemporary needs. Second, the Church should pursue a scientific ( wetenschappelijke) life, particularly in the university. Bavinck's twofold theological insight can be applied to the churches in mainland China. The first reminds Chinese Reformed churches of the necessity of composing a Sino-Reformed confession. The second insight exhorts churches to develop scientific life publicly. In this sense, the scientific calling of the church, which Bavinck envisaged more than a century before, can be fulfilled in the twenty-first-century mainland China. 1
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-03-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-11-2018
DOI: 10.1111/MOTH.12469
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-12-2021
DOI: 10.1111/IJST.12519
Abstract: Recent Bavinck studies show that Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) is not only a dogmatician but also an ethicist. This article seeks to demonstrate that, by intertwining dogmatics and ethics in a doxological way, that is, glorifying and exalting God in wonder and praise, Bavinck describes these two disciplines as inter‐independent yet intimately related together they compose a single organism. Yet, Bavinck does not fully explicate the organic interconnection between dogmatics and ethics. Given this, I would like to take a step further to propose a Bavinckian analogical account of the two disciplines: ethics is embodied dogmatics, and dogmatics is ensouled ethics together they constitute the organism of systematic theology. As such, dogmatics and ethics are understood to be two sub‐disciplines of systematic theology, which aims to promote flourishing life in light of God’s self‐revelation. Such a systematic theology serves to validate the due place of Christian theology in the academy.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-05-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-11-2021
DOI: 10.1177/00405639211051084
Abstract: This article draws on the Dutch neo-Calvinist dogmatician Herman Bavinck’s notion of conscience to explore the question of whether Christ’s assumed humanity is fallen or unfallen. It will demonstrate that, for Bavinck, Christ’s conscience was silent and did not accuse or exonerate him according to the moral law (the word of God) as occurs in the postlapsarian conscience. Such a unique conscience reflects the unfallenness of Christ’s humanity and his impeccability. Moreover, Christ’s impeccability is concomitant with Christ’s permanent response to God’s word in faith. This suggests that in the eschaton, the human conscience will become silent in a faithful trust in the word of God.
Publisher: Brill
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1111/IJST.12322
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Date: 12-06-2022
Publisher: Brill
Date: 08-10-2021
Publisher: Brill
Date: 08-10-2021
Publisher: Brill
Date: 28-05-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-03-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2022
DOI: 10.1017/HOR.2022.51
Abstract: This paper draws on the Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck's (1854–1921) views of conscience and confession of faith to articulate a dynamic view of confessing faith with a free conscience. It will argue that a genuine ecclesial confession must be coupled with the believer's free conscience in the actualized confession of faith in Christ in obedience to the word of God. This dynamic view of actualized confession—that is, confessing faith in one's life as a whole—indicates that faith incorporates not only the life in the ecclesial community but also life in the world. As such, although different churches uphold different written forms of confession of faith, actualized confession of faith assimilates the differentiation of confessional texts—being made there and then—into the consensus of confessing faith in Christ being reached here and now. The emphasis of actualized confession of faith on “here and now” will benefit the contemporary ecumenical movement.
Publisher: Brill
Date: 28-05-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-10-2018
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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