Christ our light: The expectation of seeing god in calvin's theology of the christian life
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in: Perichoresis, Jahrgang 18, Nr. 1, 01.03.2020, S. 25-40.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Christ our light
T2 - The expectation of seeing god in calvin's theology of the christian life
AU - Card-Hyatt, Carsten
PY - 2020/3/1
Y1 - 2020/3/1
N2 - The beatific vision plays a prominent role in the history of Christian ethics. Reformed ethics has an ambiguous relationship to this history, on two counts. First, it offers some qualified critiques of the role of vision in ordering ethical understanding, and second, on some accounts, Reformed ethics shares some responsibility for the loss of transcendence in the modern world, and the narrowing of the ethical field that has resulted from this loss. This essayargues that the vision of God in John Calvin’s understanding of the Christian life offers resources to defend a Reformed ethics from some recent detractors. Further, it provides a constructive contrast with the role of eschatology in a prominent strand of 20th century ethics.This argument is sustained through a close reading of Calvin’s biblical commentaries on the role of theophanies and the promise of the vision of God, and of Book III, chapters 6-10 of the Institutes.
AB - The beatific vision plays a prominent role in the history of Christian ethics. Reformed ethics has an ambiguous relationship to this history, on two counts. First, it offers some qualified critiques of the role of vision in ordering ethical understanding, and second, on some accounts, Reformed ethics shares some responsibility for the loss of transcendence in the modern world, and the narrowing of the ethical field that has resulted from this loss. This essayargues that the vision of God in John Calvin’s understanding of the Christian life offers resources to defend a Reformed ethics from some recent detractors. Further, it provides a constructive contrast with the role of eschatology in a prominent strand of 20th century ethics.This argument is sustained through a close reading of Calvin’s biblical commentaries on the role of theophanies and the promise of the vision of God, and of Book III, chapters 6-10 of the Institutes.
KW - Theology
KW - beatific vision
KW - ethics
KW - Christian life
KW - modernity
KW - transcendence
KW - John Calvin
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086668540&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2478/perc-2020-0002
DO - 10.2478/perc-2020-0002
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 18
SP - 25
EP - 40
JO - Perichoresis
JF - Perichoresis
SN - 1224-984X
IS - 1
ER -