Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 4: The Triunity of God
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Overview
Volume Four, The Triunity of God, examines the doctrine of the Trinity, including unity and distinction in the Trinity as they were understood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and addresses the deity and person of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Top Highlights
“In any case, the basic permises of the Socinian theology were an insistence that God is both essentially and personally one; that Christ, the Son, is not ‘God over all’; that the Holy Spirit is a power or divine influence, not a person; and that Christ had no existence before his conception and birth.” (Page 92)
“Calvin consistently agreed with traditional orthodoxy that the person of the Son subsists in relation to the Father by generation, but he also insists that, considered according to his full divinity, the Son shares the divine attribute of self-existence, or aseitas.” (Page 324)
“The doctrine of the essence and attributes of God, which is to say, the doctrine of the divine oneness or unity, is neither more nor less important than the doctrine of the Trinity: it simply contains more topics for discussion and definition.” (Page 146)
“The incommunicable property of the Holy Ghost is his ‘proceeding,’ which neither the Scriptures nor the church can precisely distinguish from ‘begetting.’” (Page 371)
“advocated the definition of Boethius, ‘an individual substance of a rational nature.’” (Page 47)