Calvin's salvation in writing : : a confessional academic theology / / William A. Wright.

• Superior document: Studies in Reformed Theology, Volume 29
• VerfasserIn: Wright, William A. (Associate Professor),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Reformed theology ; Volume 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Academic writing is not a neutral medium for conveying truth; its powers and faults must be exposed before theology entrusts its mysteries to the academic text. To that end, William Wright, en route to putting Calvin’s Salvation in Writing, institutes a new theological genre, “theography”: theology that “confesses” its academic parameters--with both gratitude and repentance. He delineates those parameters by contrasting the philosophical rationales for writing found in Hegel and Derrida. Drawing on their insights into dialectic and difference, Wright sets out Calvin’s doctrine of justification and sanctification across a shifting written terrain. Observing Calvin’s doctrinal structure thus becomes a path to save academic writing from claiming for itself either too much or too little. Calvin's Salvation in Writing: A Confessional Academic Theology is the philosophically boldest employment of Calvin to date. Through innovatively mining Calvin’s theology, William Wright designs a new method of theology that will enliven the field.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Theography: A Program for an Architectonically Delimited Theological Writing -- Looking for Coherence in Calvin’s Soteriology -- The Inseparably Different Architectonics of Hegel and Derrida -- Salvation Determined Solely by Justification: “God’s Mercy Alone and Christ’s Merit” -- Transitions from Justification to Sanctification: Identity, Essential Différance, and Absolute Relation -- The Interfusion of Sanctification and Justification -- A Summary Useful and Superfluous -- Bibliography -- Index.