Scottish Journal of Theology
The new issue of the Scottish Journal of Theology is out now. This issue has a special focus on historical theology: it includes one of my own articles on Milton’s theology (send me an email if you’d like an offprint), as well as excellent articles on Athanasius, Calvin, Edwards, Rutherford and Pannenberg. The full contents are available online to subscribing libraries. Here are the contents:
The biblical historical structure of Calvin’s Institutes
Stephen Edmondson
Jonathan Edwards: advice to weary theologians
Melanie Ross
Samuel Rutherford’s supralapsarianism revealed: a key to the lapsarian position of the Westminster Confession of Faith?
Guy M. Richard
Image of God as both fount and destiny of humanity: how Herderian is Pannenberg?
Kam Ming Wong
Predestination and freedom in Milton’s Paradise Lost
Benjamin Myers
God’s trinitarian substance in Athanasian theology
John R. Meyer
Cool. I am a subscriber to the Scottish Journal of Theology. I'll look forward to reading your article (it hasn't arrived in Perth yet).
Well done Ben!
Nicely done!
Could you tell me, in a nutshell, what is Milton's view of predestination?
Hey, Ben, on Sunday night the British arts programme The South Bank Show had an interview with Armando Iannucci. As reported in the Independent, Iannucci spoke about how he abandoned his PhD on Milton after reading a scholarly paper that described God's lighter moments as "Jehovialities" - and went in for raido and television comedy instead!
Iannucci also pointed out that the opening lines of Paradise Lost can be sung to the Flintstones theme! Spin that into your next paper!
Hi Alan. Well, here's a snippet from the article's abstract:
"Moving beyond the framework of post-Reformation controversies, Milton emphasises both the freedom and the universality of electing grace, and the eternally decisive role of human freedom in salvation. He erases the distinction between an eternal election of some human beings and an eternal rejection of others, portraying reprobation instead as the temporal self-condemnation of those who wilfully reject their own election and so exclude themselves from salvation. While election is grounded in the gracious will of God, reprobation is thus grounded in the fluid sphere of human decision. Highlighting this sphere of human decision, Milton depicts the freedom of human beings to actualise the future as itself the object of divine predestination."
Thanks Ben!
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