Academic literature on the topic 'Bebbington quadrilateral'

AbstractThis essay explores some of the dogmatic challenges involved in developing a distinctively evangelical account of the doctrine of theosis, that is, humanity’s participation in the life of God. After offering some preliminary clarifications regarding the terminology of theosis, the paper sketches in broad strokes how an account of theosis might take shape within the structures of evangelical theology. David Bebbington’s famous evangelical quadrilateral— biblicism, crucicentrism, conversionism, and activism—serves as the basic framework (Bebbington 1989: 1-19). It will be argued that evangelical theology can accommodate a version of theosis within this structure, but that evangelicals’ understanding of these categories may require some ‘flexing’ in order to make room for a more Christocentric and participatory conceptualization of redemption, one that culminates in the beatific vision of the redeemed when ‘God will be all in all’ (1 Cor 15:28). The final section of the paper points to a pair of important figures who may serve as resources for an evangelical retrieval of theosis.

Artikel ini merupakan suatu usulan awal untuk mengejawantahkan bagaimana rupa “muka publik” dari gerakan injili di Indonesia. Artikel ini akan membahas siapakah kaum injili di Indonesia, ka-rakteristik teologis dari kaum injili, dan wujud usulan partisipasi gerakan injili di Indonesia. Karakteristik teologis dari kaum injili yang penulis usulkan adalah modifikasi dari Quadrilateral Bebbington, yaitu Pentagram Larsen. Sebagai dampaknya, artikel ini ingin mengusulkan dua gerakan dari merupa wujud gerakan injili di Indonesia, yaitu gerakan ke dalam dan gerakan keluar. Gerakan ke dalam ini merupakan semangat gereja untuk terus mereformasi diri, sedangkan gerakan ke luar ini merupakan semangat gereja untuk mereformasi kondisi sosial. Inilah suatu usulan awal dari merupa wujud gerakan injili di Indonesia. This article was written as a preliminary opinion to explore the "public face" of evangelicalism as a movement in Indonesia. Furthermore, this article will discuss who are the evangelicals in Indonesia, the theological characteristics from the evangelicals, and the form of evangelical's participation in Indonesia. The writer will argue that the modification from Bebbington's Quadrilateral, Larsen's Pentagram, can be theological characteristics from the evangelicals in Indonesia. As a consequence, this article will propose two ways of movements from evangelicalism in Indonesia, which are the inward and outward movements. The inward movement is the spirit of the evangelical church to reform itself, while the outward flow is the eagerness of the evangelical church to reform the social condition. Thus, these are initial observations for shaping evangelicalism in Indonesia.

Artikel ini akan mendedah penggunaan teologi interseksionalitas pada konteks pluralitas identitas sosial dari Tionghoa-Injili di Indonesia. Klaim saya adalah pluralitas identitas sosial dari kaum Tionghoa-Injili Indonesia di dalam konteks kerusuhan Mei 1998 dapat menjadi sumber berteologi yang mewujud di dalam empat lintasan heuristik yang dilandaskan kepada karakteristik dari kaum Injili sendiri via pembacaan lensa interseksionalitas. Untuk mencapai tujuan ini, pertama-tama eksplorasi mengenai pluralitas identitas kaum Tionghoa-Injili secara umum akan dijabarkan. Pada bagian berikutnya, artikel ini akan membahas teologi interseksionalitas dan juga karakteristik kaum Injili. Dari sana, saya akan menjelaskan salah satu konteks sosial, yaitu kerusuhan Mei 1998, sebagai konteks sosial dari kaum Tionghoa-Injili. Pada bagian akhir, saya akan mengonstruksi wujud lintasan-lintasan heuristik teologis lewat pembacaan teologi interseksionalitas dari kaum Tionghoa-Injili akan dibingkai via Quadrilateral David W. Bebbington: konversionisme, aktivisme, biblisisme, dan penekanan terhadap karya salib.

AbstractIt remains true that an objective overview of Christian environmentalism – both theologically and practically – would see the contribution of evangelical mission agencies as fairly peripheral (a notable exception being an organisation called A Rocha). However, this paper argues that in terms both of a biblical theology of "five acts" (creation, fall, Israel, Jesus, and the present and future age) and also of evangelical culture (characterised by the "Bebbington quadrilateral" of biblicism, crucicentrism, conversionism and activism) there are good reasons why evangelicalism should engage with environment, and growing evidence that it is beginning to do so. Some of the most significant thinkers and some of the largest mission agencies have begun asking key questions about God's mission towards the whole creation and ours. The next few years will be critical as to whether evangelicals accept the challenge to rethink and rework mission to take God's creation seriously, or whether they choose to remain in an other-worldly sub-culture. Il est vrai qu'un survol objectif du point de vue chrétien sur l'environnement – à la fois théologique et pratique – considérerait l'apport des organismes missionnaires évangéliques comme assez périphérique (à l'exception notable de celui de l'Association A Rocha). Cet article soutient cependant que du point de vue des « cinq actes » (la création, la chute, Israël, Jésus et l'âge présent et à venir) comme de celui de la culture évangélique (caractérisée par le « quadrilatère de Bebbington » que sont l'axe biblique, l'axe de la Croix, l'axe de la conversion et celui de l'engagement) il y aurait de bonnes raisons pour que les évangéliques s'engagent dans les questions d'environnement et des preuves que c'est en fait de plus en plus le cas. Quelques-uns des principaux penseurs et certains des organismes les plus importants ont commencé à poser des questions cruciales sur la mission de Dieu pour la création tout entière et la nôtre. Les années à venir vont être décisives pour voir si les évangéliques acceptent ce défi de repenser et de refaire la mission en prenant au sérieux la création de Dieu, ou s'ils choisissent de se cantonner dans une subculture de l'autre monde. Es ist immer noch richtig, dass ein objektiver Überblick über das christliche Engagement in Umweltfragen – sowohl theologisch wie auch praktisch – den Beitrag der evangelikalen Missionsgesellschaften für ziemlich unbedeutend einschätzen würde (eine Organisation, die A Rocha heißt, ist eine bemerkenswerte Ausnahme). Dieser Artikel behauptet, dass es sowohl von Seiten der biblischen Theologie der "fünf Akte" (Schöpfung, Sündenfall, Israel, Jesus, Gegenwart und Zukunft) als auch der evangelikalen Kultur (die sich im ,,Bebbington Ring" von Biblizismus, Konzentration auf das Kreuz, Bekehrung und Aktivismus ausdrückt) gute Gründe gibt, warum sich der Evangelikalismus in Umweltfragen engagieren sollte; es gibt auch immer mehr Anzeichen, dass das tatsächlich schon geschieht. Einige der bedeutendsten Denker und der größten Missionsgesellschaften haben begonnen, grundlegende Fragen über die Mission Gottes der ganzen Schöpfung gegenüber und unsere Mission zu stellen. Die nächsten paar Jahre werden bedeutend sein für die Akzeptanz der Evangelikalen, diese Herausforderung anzunehmen, die Mission neu zu überdenken und auszuarbeiten, um so die Schöpfung Gottes ernstzunehmen – oder sich dafür zu entscheiden, eine Subkultur zu bleiben, die auf die andere Welt ausgerichtet ist. Sigue siendo cierto que un resumen objetivo de una ecología cristiana – tanto teológica como prácticamente – vería el aporte de agencias misioneras evangelicales como bastante marginales (una excepción importante sería una organización que se llama A Rocha [La Roca]). Sin embargo, este artículo propone que en términos tanto de la teología bíblica de los "cinco hechos" (creación, pecado, Israel, Jesús, el tiempo presente y el futuro) como de una cultura evangelical (caracterizada por el "cuadrilátero de Bebbington": centrado en la Biblia, en la cruz, en la conversión y el activismo) existen buenas razones por qué el evangelicalismo debería comprometerse con el ambiente, y que hay crecientes pruebas de que esto comienza a ser realidad. Algunos de los pensadores más significativos y algunas de las agencias misioneras más grandes han comenzado a plantearse preguntas claves sobre la misión de Dios hacia la creación entera y nuestra misión. Los próximos años serán decisivos para que los evangelicales acepten la tarea de repensar y retrabajar la misión para tomar en serio la creación de Dios, o para que opten a quedarse como una subcultura orientada hacia el otro mundo.

This dissertation examines the evangelicalism of Alexander Carson (ca. 1776- 1844) using David Bebbington's evangelical quadrilateral--biblicism, crucicentrism, conversionism, and activism--as a framework. Chapter 1 gives an introduction to the study and a biographical sketch of Carson's life and ministry. Chapter 2 examines Carson's view of Scripture in the areas of inspiration, Bible translation, and the transmission of Scripture. Carson's views on the inspiration of Scripture and the principles by which it was to be translated were given within the context of the theological controversies in which he was involved. Chapter 3 examines Carson's view of the atonement. It looks at his understanding of humanity's sin, divine justice and mercy, God's sovereignty, and the completed nature of the atonement. Chapter 4 is a study of Carson's understanding of how people are converted. The chapter discusses his views on the definition of saving faith, the relation between faith and works, the conversion experience, and the divine role in conversion. Chapter 5 looks at Carson's views on evangelism in four areas: the use of the Bible in evangelism, the importance of religious liberty to evangelize, the role of divine providence in evangelism, and the Christian's duty to evangelize. Although the four characteristics of evangelicalism set forth by Bebbington do not include other areas of theology important to Carson, such as his views on baptism and church order, the quadrilaterial does focus on what Carson believed to be central to Christianity, namely, the gospel. Therefore, considering Bebbington's quadrilateral to be a sound framework for understanding Carson's view of the gospel, the thesis of this study is that Carson's belief in the Bible as a verbally and completely inspired text was an infallible source for his understanding of the gospel as being centered upon the atonement, effective through justification by faith alone, and the motivation for evangelism.
This dissertation was under embargo until 2014-05-23.

Chapter 5 presents Part I of a field-theoretic model of religious strength, focusing on the most powerful social mechanisms and ecological factors that precipitated the rise of the New Calvinist movement. The author describes three aspects of the American cultural backdrop along with three discursive opportunities, which together facilitated the onset of contention in the American Evangelical field. The chapter maps the correspondence between Evangelical leaders’ positions in the field and their corresponding religious dispositions. Additional precipitating factors are identified. The chapter ends by empirically establishing the “rules of the game,” which are the elements of the Bebbington Quadrilateral (i.e., crucicentrism, biblicism, activism, and conversionism), to which is added the more all-encompassing field rule of “the Gospel,” broadly defined. These rules are understood as endogenous to the social system such that the battle over American Evangelicalism is a battle with and over these rules.