Randall Zachman

University of Notre Dame | ND · Department of Theology

The T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation provides an expansive range of resources introducing the doctrine of creation as understood in Christian traditions. In three major parts, it offers an examination of: (i) how the Bible and various Christian traditions have imagined creation; (ii) how the doctrine of creation informs and is informe...

Die Pharisäer waren jahrhundertelang gut bekannt, wurden aber wenig verstanden - was u.a. auf ihre übergroße Rolle in der christlichen Vorstellung zurückzuführen ist, die sich aus ausgewählten negativen Stereotypen ergibt. Viele Historiker sehen die Pharisäer jedoch als angesehene Lehrer und vorausschauende Erneuerer, die dazu beitrugen, dass sich...

The essays collected in this volume provide a resource for thinking theologically about the practice of Christian prayer. In the first of four parts, the volume begins by reaching back to the biblical foundations of prayer. Then, each of the chapters in the second part investigates a classical Christian doctrine – including God, creation, Christolo...

This collection offers a fresh assessment of John Calvin and the tradition of Calvinism as it evolved from the sixteenth century to today. The essays are written by scholars who present the latest research on a pluriform religious movement that became a global faith. The volume focuses on key aspects of Calvin’s thought and its diverse reception in...

This collection offers a fresh assessment of John Calvin and the tradition of Calvinism as it evolved from the sixteenth century to today. The essays are written by scholars who present the latest research on a pluriform religious movement that became a global faith. The volume focuses on key aspects of Calvin’s thought and its diverse reception in...

This chapter traces Karl Barth's engagement with John Calvin and his theology, beginning first with his lectures on Calvin in Göttingen, and then turning to his engagement with Calvin's theology in his Church Dogmatics. It explains the task of evangelical theology as Barth understood it, in comparison to Calvin's understanding of theology. The chap...

The Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth is the most expansive guide to Barth’s work published to date. Comprising over forty original chapters, each of which is written by an expert in the field, the Handbook provides rich analysis of Barth’s life and context, advances penetrating interpretations of the key elements of his thought, and opens and charts n...

The Reformation of Prophecy: Early Modern Interpretations of the Prophet and Old Testament Prophecy. By G. Sujin Pak. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii + 376 pp. $99.00 cloth. - Volume 88 Issue 1 - Randall C. Zachman

This companion explores Søren Kierkegaard’s importance as a critical and constructive theological thinker, offering a comprehensive reading of his work through a distinctly theological lens, including interpretative concerns, his approach to specific doctrines, and theological trajectories for thinking beyond his work. Beginning with essays on key...

This Companion offers an introduction to Reformed theology, one of the most historically important, ecumenically active, and currently generative traditions of doctrinal enquiry, by way of reflecting upon its origins, its development, and its significance. The first part, Theological Topics, indicates the distinct array of doctrinal concerns which...

The question considered here will be whether the Zurich Consensus represent Calvin's unsuccessful attempt to reconcile the churches of Wittenberg, Strasburg, Geneva, and Zurich. Calvin expressed the hope throughout his ministry that the divisions in the evangelical movement could be overcome, and claimed to be willing to do all he could to insure t...

This book has forty chapters each written by a scholar with expertise on the person and work of Christ. The book is divided into seven sections. The first section is by historical biblical scholars and it is about Jesus Christ in the Old and New Testaments. The second section is written by patristics scholars and it deals with the formation of the...

John Calvin understood his life to be directly disrupted by a prophetic call of God, similar to the call of God to Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer and others, leading him join their ongoing work of rebuilding and restoring the Catholic Church after it had been ruined by the tyranny of the papacy. Calvin used all his gifts to restore the teaching of Scri...

ParteeCharles, The Theology of John Calvin (Louisville, KY, and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008), pp. x + 345. $49.95. - Volume 64 Issue 4 - Randall C. Zachman

Randall C. Zachman places Calvin in conversation with theologians such as Pascal, Kierkegaard, Ezra the Scribe, Julian of Norwich and Karl Barth, and attends to themes in Calvin's theology which are often overlooked. Zachman draws out Calvin's use of astronomy and great concern to see ourselves in comparison to the immensity of the universe, acknow...

The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates over the Messianic Psalms. By PakG. Sujin. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xii + 217 pp. $65.00 cloth. - Volume 79 Issue 4 - Randall C. Zachman

John Calvin's vision of the Christian life is guided by the fundamental insight that what distorts our lives more than anything else is our blind self-love. This self-love is the reason why we love to hear things that flatter us, and hate to hear things that truly reveal who we are. Our self-love also provides the driving engine behind our pride, a...

John Calvin claims that the foundation of Scripture is the oracles and visions revealed to the patriarchs, transmitted through countless generations by an oral tradition that faithfully preserved these oracles. The oral tradition of the patriarchs also contains practices not found in written Scripture that are applicable to the church of Calvin day...

The Criticism of Tradition by the Word of GodThe Criticism of Revealed Truths: Pietism and RationalismThe Proper Interpretation of Christian SymbolsThe Word and Work of God in the Modern World

Bonnie Pattison has chosen to examine the way that Calvin discusses the topic of poverty in the context of the broader European Reformation, and especially in light of the Martin Luther's theology of the cross. Pattison is not interested in critiquing the thesis of Max Weber, that Calvin's theology directly influenced the rise of capitalism—indeed,...

Calvin first published his commentary on Genesis in 1554, and published it again with revisions with his Harmony on the Last Four Books of Moses in 1563. The commentary continued Calvin's interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures that began with his Commentary on Isaiah of 1551, which was itself to be republished in a revised and enlarged edition in...

The Reformed tradition arose in response to the conviction that the Roman Church was no longer the Catholic Church. Hence the Reformed tradition attempted to reestablish continuity with the prophets, apostles, fathers, and councils of the Church. The Reformed tradition claims that God freely manifests Godself by the works that God does, both in cre...

This chapter covers the sacramental theology of John Calvin, emphasizing the recurring connection and interplay between word and image—that is, that both the Law and the Gospel are portrayed in a way that connects with the physical senses in the image of the sacraments. For Calvin, sacraments are connected to the self-manifestation of God in creati...

Recent scholarly attention to Calvin's commentaries on scripture still limits our attention to the works Calvin produced for future pastors, and neglects his efforts to teach and train ordinary Christians. The commentaries have as their audience future pastors, with the goal of revealing the mind of the author with lucid brevity. The sermons have a...

Faith and Science - PriceDaniel J.: Karl Barth's Anthropology in Light of Modern Thought. (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002. Pp. v, 322. $34.00.) - Volume 65 Issue 4 - Randall C. Zachman

Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 3.2 (2003) 270-272 Elsie Anne McKee has done the theological world a great service by bringing together a collection of writings from the work of John Calvin as pastor and teacher which go a long way towards showing that Calvin has wrongly been neglected as a spiritual guide, and that he has much to say...

Cet article etudie la methode exegetique de Jean Calvin. Pour l'A., Calvin lisait l'Ecriture a la lumiere de son contexte, lequel etait double: d'une part le contexte historique et linguistique transmis par la litterature grecque et latine (histoire, astronomie, psychologie, zoologie, poesie, philosophie, meteorologie, et rhetorique), d'autre part...

One hot day a eunuch of great authority under Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians, was riding home in his chariot. He had just been to the temple in Jerusalem, yet he was not content to have his faith nourished by the priestly exposition of Scripture alone, but was also studiously reading Scripture for himself, specifically the fifty-third chapter of...

In his oft-cited article, ‘God Was Accommodating Himself to Human Capacity’, Ford Lewis Battles makes the following claim: It may be that we have succumbed to the temptation of putting the concept of accommodation too much at the center of Calvin's thought and of trying to organize everything around this notion. Yet, if this be a faithful interpret...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Divinity School, June 1990. Includes bibliographical references.