Can the Electing God be God without us? Some Implications of Bruce McCormack's Understanding of Barth's Doctrine of Election for the Doctrine of the Trinity

Molnar, Paul D.

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“…42 Thus, the proposition that the logos asarkos is essentially logos incarnandus ties the immanent to the economic Trinity, thereby rendering creation necessary to God. 43 For Molnar, divine freedom requires that God in se be without remainder. God's ontological independence is found in the integrity of God as such (i.e.…”

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A critical assessment of Bruce L. McCormack's christological proposal

Irving

2023

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Bruce L. McCormack's recent christological proposal intends to move beyond the apparent impasse in theological discourse between God's aseity and God's world relation. In describing the second mode of divine being as personally constituted by receptivity to the human Jesus of Nazareth without losing the logos asarkos, McCormack's proposed christological innovation offers a way to consider relation to the world as proper to God through the Son, without absolute pronobeity coming to dominate in the doctrine of God. This being said, his christological proposal, as it stands, implies both that election is antecedent to triunity and that the person of Jesus of Nazareth is antecedent to the act of the incarnation. With the former comes the problem of sequence in the priority of divine act over divine being. With the latter comes the problem of offering a unified account of two agencies. As such, while ontological receptivity continues to hold significant possibilities for the doctrine of God, it requires more careful coordination to the relation of passive generation as such.

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A critical assessment of Bruce L. McCormack's christological proposal

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Election and the Trinity: Twenty‐five Theses on the Theology of Karl Barth

Hunsinger

2008

Modern Theology

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How the Holy Trinity and election are related has become a hot topic in Barth studies. On the one hand are the "traditionalists" (for lack of a better term), who contend that throughout the Church Dogmatics Karl Barth never changed his mind that the triune life of God was prior to the divine decision of election. On the other hand is a growing tribe of "revisionists" who maintain that for the later Barth the situation was much the reverse in that God's pre-temporal decision of election actually gave rise to the Trinity. 1 The later Barth came to see the Trinity as resulting from election, according to the "revisionists;" whereas the "traditionalists" argue that for Barth the Trinity remained what it had always been, namely, election's essential presupposition and ground. 2 At stake are not only some of Barth's most difficult dialectical moves, but also some of the most fundamental questions in contemporary theology. How time is related to eternity, for example, is a perennial topic that continues to divide Anselmians, Thomists and other traditionalists from Hegelians, process theologians and demythologizing existentialists. It is also a topic on which Barth's complex reflections are unique. A closely related matter-how

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Divine Simplicity : A Dogmatic Account

Duby¹

2016

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This thesis offers a constructive account of the doctrine of divine simplicity in Christian theology. In its methodology, the thesis aims to present this divine perfection as an implicate of the scriptural portrayal of God, to draw upon the insights and conceptual resources of Thomas Aquinas and various Reformed orthodox theologians, and to respond to some objections to divine simplicity. The focus on exegetical elaboration of biblical teaching and the use of Thomas and the Reformed orthodox distinguish this work from a number of recent accounts of God in both systematic theology and analytic philosophy. The case for God's simplicity is made by examining God's singularity, aseity, immutability, infinity, and act of creation in Holy Scripture and then tracing the ways in which these descriptions of God imply that he is (negatively) not composed of parts. Rather, he is (positively) actus purus and really identical with his own essence, existence, and attributes, each of which is identical with the whole being of the triune God considered under some aspect. In light of the constructive work, this study then addresses the three most pressing objections to divine simplicity: (1) that it denigrates God's revelation of his many attributes in the economy; (2) that it eliminates God's freedom in creating the world and acting in history; and (3) that it does not cohere with the doctrine of the Trinity.2

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Can the Electing God be God without us? Some Implications of Bruce McCormack's Understanding of Barth's Doctrine of Election for the Doctrine of the Trinity

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A critical assessment of Bruce L. McCormack's christological proposal

A critical assessment of Bruce L. McCormack's christological proposal

Election and the Trinity: Twenty‐five Theses on the Theology of Karl Barth

Divine Simplicity : A Dogmatic Account

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