John Calvin on the Christian's Social Responsibility: Cultural Activist or “Modest Social Reformer”?
Recently there have been heated discussions between Reformed theologians who embrace the two-kingdoms doctrine and proponents of the Neo-Calvinist tradition on whether Calvin held social transformationist views. This article examines the debate and argues that Calvin did not interpret the kingdom as...
| Published in: | Dialog |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2017]
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Dialog
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| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
Ultimate
B Social Responsibility B Calvin B Two Kingdoms B Penultimate B Society |
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| Summary: | Recently there have been heated discussions between Reformed theologians who embrace the two-kingdoms doctrine and proponents of the Neo-Calvinist tradition on whether Calvin held social transformationist views. This article examines the debate and argues that Calvin did not interpret the kingdom as a progressive social-transforming reality that gradually establishes God's future eschatological reign on earth. Instead, he regarded Christ's present reign as a “backward”-reaching reality that restores God's original created order. At the same time Calvin did not make a sharp categorical distinction between the spiritual and civil realms but depicted the civil and spiritual order as two regiments of God's one reign that mutually aid and assist each other. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/dial.12363 |