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This work argues that the heart of patristic exegesis is the
attempt to find the sacramental reality (real presence) of Christ
in the Old Testament Scriptures. Leading theologian Hans Boersma
discusses numerous sermons and commentaries of the church fathers
to show how they regarded Christ as the treasure hidden in the
field of the Old Testament and explains that the church today can
and should retrieve the sacramental reading of the early church.
Combining detailed scholarly insight with clear, compelling prose,
this book makes a unique contribution to contemporary interest in
theological interpretation.
This study takes the reader to the intriguing debates on
justification in seventeenth-century English Puritan thought.
Richard Baxter (1615-91), the well-known Kidderminster pastor and
theologian, insisted that the Calvinists of his day, with their
unyielding emphasis on the sola fide of the Reformation, ran the
danger of ignoring the conditions that came with God's gift of the
covenant of grace. Justification, Baxter insisted, required at
least some degree of faith and works as the human response to the
love of God. As one of his antagonists, John Crandon, put it: "If
we magnifie one grain of our own pepper to that height that we make
it a part of that righteousness by which to stand at Gods tribunall
this one grain will sink us down to hell, so hot a poison is Mr.
Brs pepper-corn." The mix of theological differences and unbending
personality traits resulted in years of acrimonious and unyielding
debate. Building on previous studies of Baxter's soteriology, this
study maintains that Baxter is best understood as an eclectic
scholastic covenantal theologian for whom the distinction between
God's conditional covenant and his absolute will is key to the
entire theological enterprise.
Christianity Today Book Award Winner This work argues that the
heart of patristic exegesis is the attempt to find the sacramental
reality (real presence) of Christ in the Old Testament Scriptures.
Leading theologian Hans Boersma discusses numerous sermons and
commentaries of the church fathers to show how they regarded Christ
as the treasure hidden in the field of the Old Testament and
explains that the church today can and should retrieve the
sacramental reading of the early church. Combining detailed
scholarly insight with clear, compelling prose, this book makes a
unique contribution to contemporary interest in theological
interpretation.
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Athanasius (Paperback, New)
Peter J Leithart, Hans Boersma, Matthew Levering
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This volume by a respected theologian offers fresh consideration of
the work of famous fourth-century church father Athanasius, giving
specific attention to his use of Scripture, his deployment of
metaphysical categories, and the intersection between the two.
Peter Leithart not only introduces Athanasius and his biblical
theology but also puts Athanasius into dialogue with contemporary
theologians.
This volume launches the series Foundations of Theological Exegesis
and Christian Spirituality. Edited by Hans Boersma and Matthew
Levering, the series critically recovers patristic exegesis and
interpretation for contemporary theology and spirituality. Each
volume covers a specific church father and illuminates the exegesis
that undergirds the Nicene tradition. The series contributes to the
growing area of theological interpretation and will appeal to both
evangelical and Catholic readers.
The cross is central to understanding Christian theology. But is it
possible that our postmodern setting requires a new model of
understanding the cross?
Hans Boersma's "Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross" proposes an
understanding of the atonement that is sensitive both to the
Christian tradition and to the postmodern critiques of that
tradition. His fresh approach draws on the rich resources of the
Christian tradition in its portrayal of God's hospitality in Jesus
Christ.
In the decades leading up to the Second Vatican Council, the
movement of nouvelle theologie caused great controversy in the
Catholic Church and remains a subject of vigorous scholarly debate
today. In Nouvelle theologie and Sacramental Ontology Hans Boersma
argues that a return to mystery was the movement's deepest
motivation.
Countering the modern intellectualism of the neo-Thomist
establishment, the nouvelle theologians were convinced that a
ressourcement of the Church Fathers and of medieval theology would
point the way to a sacramental reintegration of nature and the
supernatural. In the context of the loss suffered by both Catholics
and Protestants in the de-sacramentalizing of modernity, Boersma
shows how the sacramental ontology of nouvelle theologie offers a
solid entry-point into ecumenical dialogue.
The volume begins by setting the historical context for nouvelle
theologie with discussions of the influence of significant
theologians and philosophers like Mohler, Blondel, Marechal, and
Rousselot. The exposition then moves to the writings of key
thinkers of the ressourcement movement including de Lubac,
Bouillard, Balthasar, Chenu, Danielou, Charlier, and Congar.
Boersma analyses the most characteristic elements of the movement:
its reintegration of nature and the supernatural, its
reintroduction of the spiritual interpretation of Scripture, its
approach to Tradition as organically developing in history, and its
communion ecclesiology that regarded the Church as sacrament of
Christ. In each of these areas, Boersma demonstrates how the
nouvelle theologians advocated a return to mystery by means of a
sacramental ontology."
Surveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected
between the natural and the supernatural, between earth and heaven,
Hans Boersma issues a wake-up call for Western Christianity. Both
Catholics and evangelicals, he says, have moved too far away from a
sacramental mindset, focusing more on the here-and-now than on the
then-and-there. Yet, as Boersma points out, the teaching of Jesus,
Paul, and St. Augustine indeed, of most of Scripture and the church
fathers is profoundly otherworldly, much more concerned with
heavenly participation than with earthly enjoyment. In Heavenly
Participation Boersma draws on the wisdom of great Christian minds
ancient and modern Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, C. S. Lewis, Henri
de Lubac, John Milbank, and many others. He urges Catholics and
evangelicals alike to retrieve a sacramental worldview, to
cultivate a greater awareness of eternal mysteries, to partake
eagerly of the divine life that transcends and transforms all
earthly realities. Hans Boersma makes a superb contribution to
evangelical theological reflection in this well-designed book, and
it goes a long way to drawing us back from the brink of a
fashionable evangelical tendency to reductive historicism. His
re-situation of the doctrine of the Incarnation in its historic
sacramental language and thought opens up the way to a deeper
understanding of the truths of faith that evangelicals and
Catholics alike seek to comprehend and nurture. David Lyle Jeffrey
Baylor University Theology at its best, says Hans Boersma, is less
interested in comprehending the truth than in participating in it.
Skillfully marshalling passages from the church fathers and
medieval theologians and drawing judiciously on contemporary
evangelical and Catholic thinkers, Boersma shows that theology is
not primarily an intellectual enterprise but a spiritual discipline
by which one enters into the truth and is mastered by it. Though
this sacramental tapestry, ' as he calls it, is as old as the
church, it is refreshing to have it presented anew in this engaging
book. Robert Louis Wilken University of Virginia
The disciplines of biblical studies and theology should serve each
other, and they should serve both the church and the academy
together. But the relationship between them is often marked by
misunderstandings, methodological differences, and cross-discipline
tension. New Testament scholar Scot McKnight here highlights five
things he wishes theologians knew about biblical studies. In a
companion volume, theologian Hans Boersma reflects on five things
he wishes biblical scholars knew about theology. With an irenic
spirit as well as honesty about differences that remain, McKnight
and Boersma seek to foster understanding between their disciplines
through these books so they might once again collaborate with one
another.
The disciplines of theology and biblical studies should serve each
other, and they should serve both the church and the academy
together. But the relationship between them is often marked by
misunderstandings, methodological differences, and cross-discipline
tension. Theologian Hans Boersma here highlights five things he
wishes biblical scholars knew about theology. In a companion
volume, biblical scholar Scot McKnight reflects on five things he
wishes theologians knew about biblical studies. With an irenic
spirit as well as honesty about differences that remain, Boersma
and McKnight seek to foster understanding between their disciplines
through these books so they might once again collaborate with one
another.
Embodiment in the theology of Gregory of Nyssa is a much-debated
topic. Hans Boersma argues that this-worldly realities of time and
space, which include embodiment, are not the focus of Gregory's
theology. Instead, embodiment plays a distinctly subordinate role.
The key to his theology, Boersma suggests, is anagogy, going upward
in order to participate in the life of God. This book looks at a
variety of topics connected to embodiment in Gregory's thought:
time and space; allegory; gender, sexuality, and virginity; death
and mourning; slavery, homelessness, and poverty; and the church as
the body of Christ. In each instance, Boersma maintains, Gregory
values embodiment only inasmuch as it enables us to go upward in
the intellectual realm of the heavenly future. Boersma suggests
that for Gregory embodiment and virtue serve the anagogical pursuit
of otherworldly realities. Countering recent trends in scholarship
that highlight Gregory's appreciation of the goodness of creation,
this book argues that Gregory looks at embodiment as a means for
human beings to grow in virtue and so to participate in the divine
life. It is true that, as a Christian thinker, Gregory regards the
creator-creature distinction as basic. But he also works with the
distinction between spirit and matter. And Nyssen is convinced that
in the hereafter the categories of time and space will
disappear-while the human body will undergo an inconceivable
transformation. This book, then, serves as a reminder of the
profoundly otherworldly cast of Gregory's theology.
An in-depth study of nouvelle theologie and the ressourcement
movement. Hans Boersma argues that a return to mystery was the
movement's deepest motivation. He sets out the context for the
early development of the movement prior to Vatican II and provides
detailed analysis of its characteristic elements and thinkers.
Interpretation is tricky business. Music and art are among the most
difficult 'texts' to interpret. And yet, today more than ever, the
media are bombarding us with sounds and images that desperately
need imaginative Christian minds to interpret. Is it possible to
find traces of the transcendent in contemporary culture? Do we
perhaps even find Christian modes of expression where we would
least expect them? Or should Christians take a far more critical
interpretive stance toward contemporary cultural art forms than
they generally do? Consisting of three main sections, this
collection of essays first asks how we should interpret the cosmos
and the biblical story of salvation. The second part deals
specifically with questions surrounding music and worship. The
final section deals with the interpretation of contemporary art and
mass media. This collection of essays is a helpful guide for those
who are willing to engage the imagination as they face tough
interpretive questions, particularly in the areas of music and the
arts. Contributors to this volume: Jeremy Begbie . John L. Bell .
Hans Boersma Dennis R. Danielson . Laurel Gasque . Wayne L. Roosa
Quentin J. Schultze . Diane Sekuloff . James K.A. Smith Hans
Boersma (Th.D., University of Utrecht) is associate professor of
religious and worldview studies at Trinity Western University. He
has been appointed to the J. I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent
College. Boersma is also the organizer of the annual LambLight
Lecture series sponsored by the Geneva Society and the author or
editor of several books, including A Hot Pepper Corn: Richard
Baxter's Doctrine of Justification in Its Seventeenth-Century
Context of Controversy and Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross:
Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition.
In recent decades many fundamental Christian assumptions about the
nature of God and the world have come under attack. No longer can
one assume even in many church circles that historic Christian
beliefs about the Trinity and providence are generally accepted or
understood. Scientific knowledge and new technologies have also
presented challenges for the church. How, for example, should
Christians understand the ecological crisis? And how should the
opening chapters of Genesis be understood in an age of genetic
research and evolutionary science? This collection of essays
attempts to chart a faithful path for postmodern Christians,
exploring the foundational ideas and concepts of a Christian
worldview and suggesting their implications for Christian living
today.Contributors: Hans Boersma John Cooper Marva J. Dawn Michael
W. Goheen Christopher D. Marshall Arnold E. Sikkema John G.
Stackhouse, Jr. Rikki E. Watts John R. Wood
As a multi-faceted introduction to sacramental theology, the
purposes of this Handbook are threefold: historical, ecumenical,
and missional. The forty-four chapters are organized into the
following parts five parts: Sacramental Roots in Scripture,
Patristic Sacramental Theology, Medieval Sacramental Theology, From
the Reformation through Today, and Philosophical and Theological
Issues in Sacramental Doctrine. Contributors to this Handbook
explain the diverse ways that believers have construed the
sacraments, both in inspired Scripture and in the history of the
Church's practice. In Scripture and the early Church, Orthodox,
Protestants, and Catholics all find evidence that the first
Christian communities celebrated and taught about the sacraments in
a manner that Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics today affirm as
the foundation of their own faith and practice. Thus, for those who
want to understand what has been taught about the sacraments in
Scripture and across the generations by the major thinkers of the
various Christian traditions, this Handbook provides an
introduction. As the divisions in Christian sacramental
understanding and practice are certainly evident in this Handbook,
it is not thereby without ecumenical and missional value. This book
evidences that the story of the Christian sacraments is, despite
divisions in interpretation and practice, one of tremendous hope.
Leading Scholar Offers a Theological Approach to Preaching This
primer on the ministry of preaching connects reading the Bible
theologically with preparing and preaching sermons. Hans Boersma
explains that exegesis involves looking beyond the historical and
literal meaning of the text to the hidden sacramental reality of
Christ himself, which enables us to reach the deepest meaning of
the Scriptures. He provides models for theological sermons along
with commentary on exegetical and homiletical method and explains
that patristic exegesis is relevant for reading the Bible today.
The book includes a foreword by Eugene H. Peterson.
As a multi-faceted introduction to sacramental theology, the
purposes of this Handbook are threefold: historical, ecumenical,
and missional. The forty-four chapters are organized into the
following parts five parts: Sacramental Roots in Scripture,
Patristic Sacramental Theology, Medieval Sacramental Theology, From
the Reformation through Today, and Philosophical and Theological
Issues in Sacramental Doctrine. Contributors to this Handbook
explain the diverse ways that believers have construed the
sacraments, both in inspired Scripture and in the history of the
Church's practice. In Scripture and the early Church, Orthodox,
Protestants, and Catholics all find evidence that the first
Christian communities celebrated and taught about the sacraments in
a manner that Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics today affirm as
the foundation of their own faith and practice. Thus, for those who
want to understand what has been taught about the sacraments in
Scripture and across the generations by the major thinkers of the
various Christian traditions, this Handbook provides an
introduction. As the divisions in Christian sacramental
understanding and practice are certainly evident in this Handbook,
it is not thereby without ecumenical and missional value. This book
evidences that the story of the Christian sacraments is, despite
divisions in interpretation and practice, one of tremendous hope.
Embodiment in the theology of Gregory of Nyssa is a much-debated
topic. Hans Boersma argues that this-worldly realities of time and
space, which include embodiment, are not the focus of Gregory's
theology. Instead, embodiment plays a distinctly subordinate role.
The key to his theology, Boersma suggests, is anagogy, going upward
in order to participate in the life of God. This book looks at a
variety of topics connected to embodiment in Gregory's thought:
time and space; allegory; gender, sexuality, and virginity; death
and mourning; slavery, homelessness, and poverty; and the church as
the body of Christ. In each instance, Boersma maintains, Gregory
values embodiment only inasmuch as it enables us to go upward in
the intellectual realm of the heavenly future. Boersma suggests
that for Gregory embodiment and virtue serve the anagogical pursuit
of otherworldly realities. Countering recent trends in scholarship
that highlight Gregory's appreciation of the goodness of creation,
this book argues that Gregory looks at embodiment as a means for
human beings to grow in virtue and so to participate in the divine
life. It is true that, as a Christian thinker, Gregory regards the
creator-creature distinction as basic. But he also works with the
distinction between spirit and matter. And Nyssen is convinced that
in the hereafter the categories of time and space will
disappear-while the human body will undergo an inconceivable
transformation. This book, then, serves as a reminder of the
profoundly otherworldly cast of Gregory's theology.
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