"Bound Over to Satan's Tyranny": Sin and Satan in Contemporary Reformed Hamartiology. Issue 1 (April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ziegler, Philip G.
• Is Part Of: Theology today. Volume 75:Issue 1(2018:Apr.)
• Page Start: 89
• Page End: 100
• Publication Date: 2018-04
• Subjects: sin -- Satan -- apocalyptic -- redemption -- Berkouwer -- apostle Paul; Theology -- Periodicals; Calvinism -- Periodicals; Théologie -- Périodiques; Calvinisme -- Périodiques; 230.005
• DOI: 10.1177/0040573618763570
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0040-5736

Abstract

What might be the shape of a Reformed account of sin that does justice to the soteriological necessity of conceiving of salvation as a "three agent drama" involving God, the human, and those powers inimical to God of which the Devil is a synecdoche? What role ought the figure of Satan play in contemporary hamartiology, and what is at stake in asking and answering such a question? In conversation with recent work in Pauline apocalyptic as well as the work of G.C. Berkouwer as a developed example of the treatment of Satan in modern Protestant soteriology, this article explores these questions with a view to discerning possibilities for constructive restatement.