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Calvin, classical trinitarianism, and the aseity of the Son /

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Brannon Ellis investigates the various Reformation and post-Reformation responses to Calvin's affirmation of the Son's aseity (or essential self-existence), a significant episode in the history of theology that is often ignored or misunderstood.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellis, Brannon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Calvin, Jean, > 1509-1564.
Jesus Christ > History of doctrines.
Jesus Christ > Pre-existence.
Jésus-Christ > Histoire des doctrines.
Jésus-Christ > Préexistence.
Calvin, Jean, > 1509-1564
Jesus Christ
Trinity > History of doctrines.
Christianity > Philosophy > History.
God (Christianity)
Trinité > Histoire des doctrines.
Christianisme > Philosophie > Histoire.
Dieu (Christianisme)
RELIGION > Christianity > Calvinist.
Christianity > Philosophy
Pre-existence
Theology, Doctrinal
Trinity > History of doctrines
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Calvin on the aseity of the Son: the 1559 Institutes as entry-point
  • 2. The autothean controversies: Calvin's complex solidarity with classical trinitarianism
  • 3. The theological shape of the Autothean debates: eternal generation's role in classical trinitarianism
  • 4. Identity, distinction, or tension in trinitarian language?: 'loose' approaches to the Son's aseity
  • 5. Tension to distinction: classical and mainstream reformed approaches to the Son's aseity
  • 6. The irreducible triunity of God: the reformed minority report's strict distinction of the two ways of speaking
  • 7. Of himself, God gives himself.