Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity

Molnar, Paul D.

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“…44 Because it is only as God is ontologically free from us that he can be free for us, Molnar establishes the following counterfactual as a necessary proposition for theological speech: 'God exists eternally as Father, Son and Holy Spirit and would so exist even if there had been no creation, reconciliation or redemption'. 45 Given the contours of his proposal, McCormack cannot conceive of trinitarian protology in the form of absolute ontological independence. Even so, trinitarian protology remains an important part of his proposal in the form of the logos asarkos.…”

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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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Section: Mccormack's Christological Proposalmentioning

confidence: 99%