John Calvin and John Owen on Mortification: A Comparative Study in Reformed Spirituality.

1996 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 870
Author(s):  
Blair Reynolds ◽  
Randall C. Gleason
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
John Owen ◽  
Reformed Spirituality

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 478-482
Author(s):  
Editorial Office
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
Grand Rapids ◽  
John Owen ◽  
The Devil

Braaten, C E & Jenson, R W, 2000. Sin, death and the devil. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Prys: Onbekend.   Michael Green, The Message of Matthew. Intervarsity Press, Leicester, 343 pp. Price £9.99.   Francisco Lozada (Jr.), A literary reading of John 5. Text as construction. Peter Lang: New York, 138 pp. Price unknown.   McGrath A & Packer JI (series eds), Thomas Manton, Jude 1999 [1675] 223 pp. John Calvin, 1 & 2 Timothy & Titus 1998 [1556] 208pp. John Owen, Hebrews 1998 [1680?] 269pp. The Crossway Classic Commentaries.

scholarly journals The Beatific Vision and the Heavenly Mediation of Christ

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-128
Author(s):  
Simon Francis Gaine
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Summa Theologiae ◽  
Beatific Vision ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Argument Proceeds ◽  
John Owen

This article argues that Thomas Aquinas is to be interpreted as holding that the beatific vision of the saints is causally dependent on the glorified humanity of Christ. It opposes the view that, for Aquinas, Christ’s humanity has causal significance only for those who are being brought to the beatific vision by grace, and not for those who have attained this vision, such that there is a Christological deficit in Aquinas’s eschatology. The argument proceeds somewhat in the manner of an article of Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae. Having briefly outlined the recent debate, especially the contribution of Hans Boersma, two objections are put against my position. A sed contra is formulated on the basis of quotations from the Summa. The responsio is based on Aquinas’s extensive use of a philosophical ‘principle of the maximum’ and its particular application by Aquinas to grace. After replies to the objections, based on the method and structure of the Summa, I locate Aquinas’s position in the debate on Christ’s heavenly mediation between that of John Calvin and that of John Owen and Jonathan Edwards.

scholarly journals Ensouling the Beatific Vision. Motivating the Reformed Impulse

Perichoresis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Joshua R. Farris ◽  
Ryan A. Brandt
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Beatific Vision ◽  
Bodily Resurrection ◽  
History Of ◽  
John Owen ◽  
Medieval Christianity ◽  
Personal Eschatology

Abstract The beatific vision is a subject of considerable importance both in the Christian Scriptures and in the history of Christian dogmatics. In it, humans experience and see the perfect immaterial God, which represents the final end for the saints. However, this doctrine has received less attention in the contemporary theological literature, arguably, due in part to the growing trend toward materialism and the sole emphasis on bodily resurrection in Reformed eschatology. As a piece of retrieval by drawing from the Scriptures, Medieval Christianity, and Reformed Christianity, we motivate a case for the Reformed emphasis on the immaterial and intellectual aspects of human personal eschatology and offer some constructive thoughts on how to link it to the contemporary emphasis of the body. We draw a link between the soul and the body in the vision with the help of Christology as reflected in the theology of John Calvin, and, to a greater extent, the theology of both John Owen and Jonathan Edwards.

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