Neo-Calvinism and Roman Catholicism

Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Neo-Calvinism and Roman Catholicism
	1 A Tense Relationship
	2 Breaking New Ground
	3 A Shared Struggle
	4 Twentieth Century Development
	5 Contemporary Scholarship
	6 Scripture and Tradition
	7 Theological Interaction with the (Modern) World
	8 Christian Ethics/Moral Theology
	9 Worship
	10 Constructive Theological Engagement
	Bibliography
Part 1 Scripture and Tradition
2 “In More or Less Figurative Language”: The Dutch Neo-Calvinist Fascination
	1 Introduction
	2 Providentissimus Deus – Context and Content
	3 Herman Bavinck
	4 Jan Ridderbos
	5 Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer
	6 Hermeneutics of Genesis 1–3
	7 Concluding Observations
	Acknowledgement
	Bibliography
3 Bavinck’s View of the Relation Between Scripture and Tradition
	1 Introduction
	2 Bavinck
		2.1 Theological Principles
		2.2 Christology and Pneumatology
		2.3 Tradition
		2.4 Church
		2.5 Principium Internum
		2.6 Rome
	3 Constructive Evaluation
	Bibliography
Part 2 Theological Interaction with the (Modern) World
4 Shared Principles, Diverging Paths: Neo-Calvinism, neo-Thomism and the Natural Sciences, 1880–1960
	1 Introduction
	2 The Dutch Context: Neo-Calvinist and Neo-Thomist Scientific Organizations
	3 Neo-Calvinist and Neo-Thomist Views of the Sciences: Foundational Ideas
	4 Neo-Calvinist and Neo-Thomist Views of Evolution
	5 Scientists and Theologians in the Interbellum Period
	6 Neo-Calvinist and Neo-Thomist Scientists in the 1950s
	7 Conclusion
	Bibliography
5 “All the More Reason to Exercise Caution while Discussing Genesis”
	1 Introduction
	2 Berkouwer on “Creation and Evolution” (1956)
	3 Berkouwer’s Theological Anthropology (1957) and Doctrine of Scripture (1967)
	4 The Catholic Connection
	5 Conclusion
	Bibliography
6 Herman Bavinck the Neo-Thomist? A Reevaluation of Influence
	1 Introduction: Herman Bavinck and His Interpreters
	2 Herman Bavinck’s Neo-Thomist Window
	3 Toward a Neo-Thomistic Center: Joseph Kleutgen’s ‘Vorzeit’ Theology
	4 Bavinck on Supernaturalist Deviation
	5 Conclusion
	Bibliography
7 Vatican I, the ‘duplex ordo cognitionis’, and the Nouvelle Théologie
	1 Introduction: Doctrinal Development?
	2 Duplex Ordo Cognitionis
	3 Hermeneutical Principle for Interpreting Ecclesial Texts
	4 Faith and Reason, Nature and Grace
	5 Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part 3 Christian Ethics and Moral Theology
8 A Reformed Spirituality for Our Daily Labor: Towards a Bavinckian Theology of Work
	1 Introduction: How Changing Locations for Work Reshapes Societies & Creates Social Problems
	2 Herman Bavinck’s Engagement with the ‘Social Question’
	3 New Century, Similar Problems: Pope John Paul II and Laborem Exercens
	4 The Theological Anthropology of Laborem Exercens
	5 Sin’s Dehumanizing Effects on Work in Both Capitalist and Communist Societies
	6 Capitalism: When Humans Become the Object of Work
	7 Communism: Stripping Humans of a Rightful Claim to the Outcomes of Their Work
	8 Laborem Exercens’s Third Way Between Rigid Capitalism and Communism
	9 What Should Neo-Calvinists Learn from Laborem Exercens?
	10 A Bavinckian Theological Anthropology for Today’s Work Environment
	11 Fragmentation and Dehumanization
	12 The Search for a New Locus Classicus
	13 Tuning Our Lives to Sense God’s Presence: The Liturgical Rhythms of Psalm 104
	14 A Dynamic View of God’s Presence in the World
	15 The Liberating Guidance of God-Intended Boundaries
	16 Conclusion
	Bibliography
9 Theologizing Social Pluralism: Catholic and Neo-Calvinist Approaches
	1 Social Pluralism in the Catholic Tradition
	2 Social Pluralism in the Neo-Calvinist Tradition
	3 The Challenge of Theologizing Social Pluralism
	4 Grounding Social Ontology: Anthropology or Creation Order?
	5 The Church and Social Structure: Hierarchy or Collegiality?
	6 Christology: Participation or Prostration?
	7 Conclusion: Implications for Pluralistic Societies
	Bibliography
10 Consuming Christ and Creation: Catholic and Neo-Calvinist Responses to Capitalism
	1 Christianity and Economics
	2 A Comparative Exercise
	3 William Cavanaugh
	4 Contested Rituals of Market and Church
	5 Bob Goudzwaard
	6 The Calvinist Disclosure of the Tunnel Society
	7 Calvinism and Catholicism in Dialogue
	Bibliography
11 How Should the Church be Involved in Modern Politics? Edward Schillebeeckx’s
	Bibliography
Part 4 Worship
12 “Spirit and Imagination”: Secularism and the Role of the Liturgy in Joseph Ratzinger
	1 Liturgical Theology in Ratzinger and Smith
	2 Secularism in Ratzinger and Smith
	3 Nature and Grace
	4 Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part 5 Constructive Theological Engagement
13 “The Clay of Paganism with the Iron of Christianity”
	1 Between Metaphors and Philosophical Categories
	2 Between the Aristotle-Christ and the Kant-Christ
	3 Van Til’s Prophetic Insights and Their Limits
	Bibliography
14 Why Not Join the Roman Catholic Church?
	1 Emergency Measure
	2 Transitions and Conversions
	3 Historical Developments
	4 Pope and Image
	5 Unity of the Church
	6 Authority
	7 Objectivity of Grace
	8 Why not Join the Roman Catholic Church?
	Bibliography
15 Neo-Calvinism and “the Catholic Imagination”
	Bibliography
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