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The Politics of Pointing: Lessing's Fingerzeig and the Limits of Figural Reading

The German Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Lessing's Fingerzeig—a “pointer” that guides without determining judgment—has often been treated as a stylistic habit rather than a hermeneutic principle. This essay reconstructs it as an ethics of interpretation, a gesture that orients without completing and leaves judgment to whoever follows.
Matthew Thomas Stoltz
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Trinitarian Inseparable Operations and the Incarnation

, 2016
The present article argues that the doctrine of the inseparable external operations (opera ad extra, hereafter OAE) of the Trinity is consistent with the doctrine of the incarnation of the Son alone. To demonstrate this, it will be shown, first, that the
Vidu, Adonis, Adonis Vidu
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‘To Gather Up All Things in Christ’: John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation as an Exercise in the Relation of Doctrines

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers John Betz's book Christ, the Logos of Creation as an exercise in the relation of doctrines within Christian systematic theology.
Andrew Davison
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Salvation and Christ’s Obedience

, 2023
Brandon D. Crowe, Why Did Jesus Live a Perfect Life? The Necessity of Christ’s Obedience for Our Salvation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2021.$22.99. pp. xiii + 221. ISBN: 978-1-54096-250-8)
Johnston, David J., David J. Johnston
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‘Theological Metaphysics’ and the Christological Determination of the Principle of Analogy: A Response to John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
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The Hinge of Salvation: Body, Liturgy, and Bioethics

The Person and the Challenges, 2013
Dominant trends within the philosophical debate over personhood and identity tend to discount the significance and meaning of the human body and often slip into dualistic conceptions.
John Christopher Sikorski
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
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Domus Sapientiae: A Mariological and Christological Metaphor According to the Patristic, Theological, and Liturgical Tradition

Religions
This article sheds light on the repercussions of the Proverbs sentence “Wisdom has built her house” on Christian doctrine and on the Marian iconography of the Annunciation.
José María Salvador-González
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Paradox and the incarnation: Why it isn’t simply a matter of logical contradiction

, 2023
‘To say that Christ is a single hypostasis who joins together two wholly distinct and unequal natures […] is to say that he is a living paradox’ (Daley, 2004, pp. 194–5). In contrast to Daley, many have argued the paradoxicality of the incarnation refers
Lawson, F.
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