Manfred Svensson - Aquinas Among the Protestants

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Michael Allen is Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, Florida. Together with Scott Swain he is author of Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval in Theology and Biblical Interpretation (2015). In addition to articles in various journals, his books include Justification and the Gospel: Understanding the Contexts and Controversies (2013) and Karl Barths Church Dogmatics: An Introduction and Reader (2012).

Jordan J. Ballor serves as executive editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality and research fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is also the associate director of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research at Calvin Theological Seminary. In addition to his book Covenant, Causality, and Law: A Study in the Theology of Wolfgang Musculus (2012) he has published articles in journals such as Reformation & Renaissance Review and Scottish Journal of Theology.

John Bolt is Professor of Systematic Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of several articles and books, including A Free Church, A Holy Nation: Abraham Kuypers American Public Theology (2000). He is the editor of the fourvolume English edition of Herman Bavincks Reformed Dogmatics.

Jonathan Chaplin is Director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, Cambridge, UK. He has authored or edited nine books and reports, and many articles, in this field. Recent publications include God and Government (coeditor, 2009), God and Global Order (coeditor, 2010), Multiculturalism: A Christian Retrieval (2011), and Herman Dooyeweerd: Christian Philosopher of State and Civil Society (2011).

J. V. Fesko is Academic Dean and Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Westminster Seminary California. His publications include Justification: Understanding the Classic Reformed Doctrine (2008), Beyond Calvin: Union with Christ and Justification in Early Modern Reformed Theology (15171700) (2012), The Covenant of Redemption: Origins, Development, and Reception (2015), and Death in Adam, Life in Christ: The Doctrine of Imputation (2016).

Sven Grosse is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Staatsunabhngige Theologische Hochschule Basel. His books include Gott und das Leid in den Liedern Paul Gerhardts (2001) and Heilsungewissheit und Scrupulositas im spten Mittelalter. Studien zu Johannes Gerson und Gattungen der Frmmigkeitstheologie seiner Zeit (1994).

Paul Helm has served as Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Regent College in Vancouver, Highland Theological College in Scotland, and Kings College London. He has published extensively on contemporary philosophy of religion and on the thought of John Calvin. His publications include John Calvins Ideas (2004) and Eternal God (2011).

Jack Kilcrease is an adjunct professor of theology at the Institute of Lutheran Theology in South Dakota and Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His publications include several articles and the book The SelfDonation of God: A Contemporary Lutheran Approach to Christ and His Benefits (2013).

Torrance Kirby is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director for the Centre for Research on Religion at McGill University in Montreal. His books include A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli (2009), The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology (2007), and Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist (2013).

Stefan Lindholm is Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at Johannelunds teologiska hgskola, Uppsala, Sweden. He is the author of Jerome Zanchi (15151590) and the Analysis of Reformed Scholastic Christology (2016). He is editor of the journal Theofilos and the author of articles in various scholarly journals.

Sebastian Rehnman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stavanger in Norway. His books include Divine Discourse: The Theological Methodology of John Owen (Baker Academic, 2002) and Tnkestt: Studier i Alvin Plantingas filosofi (Norma, 2004). He has published extensively both on Protestant scholasticism and contemporary philosophy of religion.