Adolf Schlatter on recasting theological anthropology
Adolf Schlatter claims that the Protestant Reformation bequeathed us a lopsided understanding of human personhood. In his view, the Reformers offered a limited definition of sin that neglected our creatureliness, and a passive understanding of grace that rendered the believer inactive. Seeking to co...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 74, Issue: 4, Pages: 346-358 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Schlatter, Adolf 1852-1938
/ Theological anthropology
/ Reformation
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IxTheo Classification: | KAA Church history KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology |
Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Grace B Sin B Reformation B Theological Anthropology B Adolf Schlatter |
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Summary: | Adolf Schlatter claims that the Protestant Reformation bequeathed us a lopsided understanding of human personhood. In his view, the Reformers offered a limited definition of sin that neglected our creatureliness, and a passive understanding of grace that rendered the believer inactive. Seeking to correct what he considers misrepresentations of religious and christological anthropology in (post-)Reformation theology, Schlatter suggests a view of sin that takes our humanity as God's creatures seriously, and he puts forward a view of grace that leads to an organic transformation of our volition and leaves our God-given creatureliness intact. Schlatter's active-volitional understanding of divine grace offers much by way of promise as we rediscover our responsibilities as God's active agents in a fallen world. |
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ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930621000752 |