1 From Divine Election to Self-Deification

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-94
Keyword(s):  
Divine Election

Spinoza’s Biblical Criticism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jetze Touber
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Divine Election ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Way

Chapter 1 homes in on Spinoza as a Bible critic. Based on existing historiography, it parses the main relevant historical contexts in which Spinoza came to articulate his analysis of the Bible: the Sephardi community of Amsterdam, freethinking philosophers, and the Reformed Church. It concludes with a detailed examination of the Tractatus theologico-politicus, Spinoza’s major work of biblical criticism. Along the way I highlight themes for which Spinoza appealed to the biblical texts themselves: the textual unity of the Bible, and the biblical concepts of prophecy, divine election, and religious laws. The focus is on the biblical arguments for these propositions, and the philological choices that Spinoza made that enabled him to appeal to those specific biblical texts. This first chapter lays the foundation for the remainder of the book, which examines issues of biblical philology and interpretation discussed among the Dutch Reformed contemporaries of Spinoza.

Gen. 15.6 and Early christian Struggles Over Election

1991 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-456
Author(s):  
D. Dixon Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Christian Identity ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Divine Election

Gen. 15.6 clearly stood as a pivotal scriptural foundation in St Paul's effort to define Christian identity. Paul sought to formulate that definition in Gal. 3 and Rom. 4 in terms of the Jewish understanding of divine election of Israel. The crux of his argument focused on including Gentiles in God's convenantal election. By his reinterpretation of Gen. 15.6 Paul showed that judaism of his day had wrongly excluded non-Jews from the Abrahamic promises.

Divine Election in the Hebrew Bible by Hallvard Hagelia

2021 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-681
Author(s):  
David B. Schreiner
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Divine Election

scholarly journals Barth backwards: reading theChurch Dogmatics‘from the end’

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-390
Author(s):  
Rob McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Doctrine Of God ◽  
Divine Election

AbstractThis article proposes a way of reading Karl Barth'sChurch Dogmaticsbackwards or ‘from the end’. Employing this method to exploreThe Doctrine of GodandThe Doctrine of the Word of Godhighlights two aspects of Barth's theology. The first is the importance of communion to Barth's account of the immanence and economy of God, especially in his understanding of God as the ‘Lord of Glory’. The second is Barth's careful balancing of christology and pneumatology across the first two volumes of theDogmaticsthrough the use of a chiastic structure that underpins his construal of divine election and his account of divine revelation.

Chosen But Free: A Balanced View of Divine Election

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 242-246
Author(s):  
Steven B. Cowan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Divine Election
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