Calvin and the Federal Vision - Softcover

Jeon, Jeong Koo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606081721 ISBN 13: 9781606081723

Verlag: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2009

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Description: John Calvin (1509-64) was the pinnacle of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation in Europe. As we celebrate the five hundred-year anniversary of his birth, it is worthy to explore Calvin's covenant theology, which may be one of the best windows to understand and evaluate his theology as a whole. In recent years, the Federal Vision has been surfaced in the American conservative Reformed and evangelical circles. It has strong hermeneutical, theological, and practical attachment with Calvin. Although Calvin was a covenant theologian, he firmly maintained the evangelical distinction between law and gospel, especially in his exposition of justification by faith alone (sola fide) and salvation by grace alone (sola gratia) with a balanced emphasis of believers' covenantal obedience. Moreover, we will find out that Calvin not only applied the distinction between law and gospel to soteriology but also in the depiction of redemptive history. In Calvin, the distinction between law and gospel was foundational for the depiction of biblical vision of eschatology in the Garden of Eden before the Fall and under the Old Covenant. However, the exponents of the Federal Vision deny any validity of the distinction between law and gospel in hermeneutics, theology, and practice while they identify themselves with those of Calvin. In that sense, we may identify the Federal Vision not with the Protestant Reformation and Calvin but as consistent monocovenantalism in which they deny the distinction between law and gospel and apply that monocovenantal principle consistently to their understandings of hermeneutics, soteriology, the doctrine of double predestination, and sacramental theology. About the Contributor(s): Jeong Koo Jeon is Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Chesapeake Reformed Theological Seminary in Maryland. He is the author of Covenant Theology (1999 & 2004) and Covenant Theology and Justification by Faith (2006).

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Karl Barth and John Calvin belong to the first rank of great theologians of the church. Both, of course, were also reformed theologians. Historically, Calvins influence on reformed doctrine has been much greater than that of Barths and continues to be so in the present day. In contrast, Barths reformed credentials have been questionednot least in his understanding of election and atonement. The question is who should be of greater importance for the reformed church in the twentyfirst century? Who has the better arguments on the Bible? Barth or Calvin? Doctrinal areas of focus are the nature of the atonement, Scripture and the sacraments.

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• Verlag: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1606081721
• ISBN 13: 9781606081723
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254