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20 - Reformed Catholicity

from Part II - Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

Michael Allen
Affiliation:
Reformed Theological Seminary, Florida
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Summary

In its most basic sense, “Reformed catholicity” involves approaching Reformed theology, in its historic and contemporary forms, as one who belongs to the larger Christian tradition, the “holy, catholic church” confessed by the Apostles’ Creed. While this approach operates from within the Reformed theological tradition, it does so with an attentive ear to the catholic Christian voices from all eras; for those who embrace Reformed catholicity do not approach the Reformed tradition as an end in itself but rather as a way to fruitfully inhabit the larger catholic tradition. In its recent instantiation as a contemporary “sensibility,” “Reformed catholicity” generally means combining a theocentric focus upon theology as knowledge of the Triune God and creation in relation to God. It also involves a commitment to recovering the core catholic trinitarian and christological convictions that provide a framework for a theological journey of faith seeking understanding. Within this context, the task of biblical exegesis is embraced as fundamental to the renewal of a modern theological imagination. These catholic and Reformed convictions can help frame a way for the reception of the Word by the Spirit that moves God’s people away from self-serving and truncated ends and toward the fullness of maturity in Christ in life, worship, and witness.

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Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Allen, Michael, and Swain, Scott (2015), Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic).Google Scholar
Bavinck, Herman (2008), Reformed Dogmatics, 4 Volumes, (ed. Bolt, John; trans. John Vriend; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic).Google Scholar
Hunsinger, George, Johnson, Keith L., eds. (2020), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth, Volumes 1–2, (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell).Google Scholar
Mercersburg Theology Study Series (including critical editions of John Williamson Nevin’s works) (2013–), Barrett, Lee C. and Layman, David W., eds. (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock).Google Scholar
Muller, Richard A. (2003), Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy, Ca. 1520 to Ca. 1725, Volumes 1–4 (2nd ed.; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic).Google Scholar
New Studies in Dogmatics (2015–), Allen, Michael and Swain, Scott, eds. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic).Google Scholar
Reformation Commentary on Scripture Series (RCSS) (2012–), George, Timothy, general ed.; Manetsch, Scott M., associate general ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity).Google Scholar
Saillant, John (2003), Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753–1833 (New York: Oxford University Press).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sonderegger, Katherine (2015–2020), Systematic Theology, Volumes 1 and 2 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Van Vlastuin, Willem (2020), Catholic Today: A Reformed Conversation about Catholicity (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).Google Scholar
Vanhoozer, Kevin J. (2005), The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox,).Google Scholar
Vanhoozer, Kevin J. (2010), Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press);Google Scholar
Webster, John (2003), Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press);Google Scholar
Webster, John (2018) God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology, volumes 1 and 2 (London: T&T Clark).Google Scholar

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