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Contents : The Evangelical Review
of Theology and Politics Vol. 1, 2013

THE EVANGELICAL REVIEW OF THEOLOGY & POLITICS
VOL. 1, 2013

ARTICLES

Article
P.H. Brazier, ‘C.S. Lewis, praeparatio evangelica: a Catholic Evangelical, Defined by Method, Technique, and Form.’

KEY WORDS
|| Evangelical || Catholic || regula fidei || Theological Method || Mission ||
|| analogia entis-analogia fidei ||

ABSTRACT
C.S. Lewis was at one and the same time intensely Evangelical and intensely Catholic. The method, technique, and form of his work was likewise Catholic-Evangelical: his method was defined by the Christ event, derived from the Patristic theologian Vincentius of Lérins (the Scripture imbued authority of the Church, ‘what has been held always, everywhere, by everybody’) and the Puritan Richard Baxter (from whom he acknowledges the term ‘mere Christian’—a sheer core to the faith, merus). This paper demonstrates a thread of systematic ground and continuity to Lewis’s writings: a content-led bipartite method and bipartite technique, unified by a universal Platonic principle, realized through the form of the analogia entis-analogia fidei—derived from the Catholic and Puritan traditions, but Evangelical in mission. Lewis’s theological and philosophical writings frame a Christian Weltanschauung : ‘the Creation, the fall, the Incarnation, the Resurrection, the Second Coming, and the Four Last Things.’ Therefore he defines his work as praeparatio evangelica: preparation for the Holy Spirit. In this he is neither an Enlightenment-led modernist, nor a disparate and relativistic liberal Postmodernist, but an orthodox theologian-philosopher in the Patristic tradition, grounding his writings in Scripture. Lewis could therefore be described as a Catholic-Evangelical.

Uploaded/Published : October 10, 2013 | ERTP Vol 1, 2013, pages, A1-17

Article
Andy Wier ‘Living With Tension: Towards A Practical Charismatic-Evangelical Urban Social Ethic.’

KEY WORDS
|| Christian Social Ethics || Urban Theology || Charismatic-Evangelical Churches ||
|| Practical Theology || Faith-Based Social Action || Creative Tension ||

ABSTRACT
This article attempts to articulate a theological response to some of the tensions that UK charismatic-evangelical churches experience when engaging with socially and economically disadvantaged urban areas. The working title of this model is a practical charismatic-evangelical urban social ethic. Developed by a practical theologian in response to the findings of a recent qualitative study, this model tries to root charismatic-evangelical urban practice in a wider social ethic which is both consistent with evangelical convictions and open to insights from other Christian traditions. The proposed practical charismatic-evangelical urban social ethic consists of six conceptual components. Each of these responds to a tension that has been encountered and observed within contemporary charismatic-evangelical urban practice. The article outlines each conceptual component in turn and then goes on to assess the evangelical credentials of this model. It is acknowledged that the practical charismatic-evangelical urban social ethic presented here does not provide a finalised or definitive model. Instead, it is shared as an outline sketch intended to provoke further evangelical reflection on the subject of living with tension.

Uploaded/Published : December 6, 2013 | ERTP Vol 1, 2013, pages, A18-30

Article
David Cowan, ‘Capitalism and Its Discontents: A Response to the Voices of Theological and Moral Animus.’

KEY WORDS
|| Capitalism || Market Economy || Consumerism || Consumption || Poverty ||

ABSTRACT
In this essay, I will critique the animus of theologians towards Capitalism and the market economy, in which much of the theological literature on the market economy and consumerism link profit, greed and excess to poverty, using poverty as a moral “gotcha” to kill off any debate as to whether the market economy is morally defensible. I offer this essay as a call to engage realistically

Uploaded/Published : December 19, 2013 | ERTP Vol 1, 2013, pages, A31-43

ERTP FORUM

The Evangelical Review of Theology and Politics
ERTP Forum : The Civil War in Syria

David Cowan, Eric Patterson, Tony Richie and Mitch Glaser, with material from The Jerusalem Centre for Genocide Prevention, and observers based in the Middle East.

Uploaded/Published : October 28, 2013 | ERTP Vol 1, 2013, pages, EF1-14

BOOK REVIEWS

Review
Paul C. McGlasson, No! A Theological Response to Christian Reconstructionism. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. Reviewed by William MacDonald.

Uploaded/Published : September 25, 2013 | ERTP Vol 1, 2013, pages, BR1-3.

Review
Stephen R. Holmes (editor), Public Theology in Cultural Engagement. Thinking Faith Series. Colorado Springs, CO: Paternoster, 2008. Reviewed by Ashley Staggs-Kay.

Uploaded/Published : September 25, 2013 | ERTP Vol 1, 2013, pages, BR4-5.

Review
Baruch Maoz, Come Let Us Reason: The Unity of Jews and Gentiles in the Church. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2012. Reviewed by Brian N. Brewer.

Uploaded/Published : September 25, 2013 | ERTP Vol 1, 2013, pages, BR6-8.

Review
Amos Yong, In the Days of Caesar: Pentecostalism and Political Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2010. Reviewed by Calvin L. Smith.

Uploaded/Published : November 16, 2013 | ERTP Vol 1, 2013, pages, BR9-10.

Pagination

The Evangelical Review ~ Vol. 1, 2013
Contents ~ Pagination
Articles
Brazier			A1-17
Wier			A18-30
Cowan			A31-43

ERTP Forum
Forum on Syria			EF1-14

Book Reviews
Review of McGlasson			BR1-3
Review of Holmes			BR4-5
Review of Moaz			BR6-8
Review of Yong			BR9-10