A Trinitarian Theology Of Law

Author : David H. McIlroy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606088777

Get Book

A Trinitarian Theology of Law by David H. McIlroy Pdf

This book explores the neglected significance of the doctrine of the Trinity for the understanding of human law. Through interaction with the thought of Jÿrgen Moltmann, Oliver O'Donovan and Thomas Aquinas, it argues that human law is called to play a positive but limited role in maintaining shallow justice and relative peace. Human law is overshadowed by the work of the Son, included in the purposes of the Father, and used as an instrument by the Holy Spirit. However, the Spirit works in those who are in Christ to effect deep justice, a work of sanctification which culminates in glorification--the experience of perfect, free, willing obedience in heaven. Thinking about law in the light of the Trinity enables us to understand its role, its purposes, and its limits.

Author : David H. McIlroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law (Theology)
ISBN : 1842276352

Get Book

A Trinitarian Theology of Law by David H. McIlroy Pdf

This book explores the neglected significance of the doctrine of the Trinity for the understanding of human law.

Author : David H. McIlroy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532681301

Get Book

A Trinitarian Theology of Law by David H. McIlroy Pdf

This book explores the neglected significance of the doctrine of the Trinity for the understanding of human law. Through interaction with the thought of Jurgen Moltmann, Oliver O'Donovan and Thomas Aquinas, it argues that human law is called to play a positive but limited role in maintaining "shallow justice" and relative peace. Human law is overshadowed by the work of the Son, included in the purposes of the Father, and used as an instrument by the Holy Spirit. However, the Spirit works in those who are in Christ to effect "deep justice," a work of sanctification which culminates in glorification--the experience of perfect, free, willing obedience in heaven. Thinking about law in the light of the Trinity enables us to understand its role, its purposes, and its limits.

Author : David McIlroy
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9781788114004

Get Book

The End of Law by David McIlroy Pdf

The End of Law applies Augustine’s questions to modern legal philosophy as well as offering a critical theory of natural law that draws on Augustine’s ideas. McIlroy argues that such a critical natural law theory is: realistic but not cynical about law’s relationship to justice and to violence, can diagnose ways in which law becomes deformed and pathological, and indicates that law is a necessary but insufficient instrument for the pursuit of justice. Positioning an examination of Augustine’s reflections on law in the context of his broader thought, McIlroy presents an alternative approach to natural law theory, drawing from critical theory, postmodern thought, and political theologies in conversation with Augustine.

Author : Cynthia Bourgeault
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834828940

Get Book

The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three by Cynthia Bourgeault Pdf

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In this formula that Christians recite as though on autopilot lie the secrets for healing our world, rekindling our visionary imagination, and manifesting the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It’s an astonishing claim, but one that is supported by Cynthia Bourgeault’s exploration of Trinitarian theology—and by her bold work in further articulating the deep truth it contains. She looks to the ancient concept in light of the ideas of G. I. Gurdjieff and Jacob Boehme to reveal the Trinity as the "hidden driveshaft" within Christianity: the compassionate expression of the Uncreated Reality in creation.

Author : Stephen M. Hildebrand
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813214733

Get Book

The Trinitarian Theology of Basil of Caesarea by Stephen M. Hildebrand Pdf

This book explores Basil's Trinitarian thought as the meeting place of the worlds within which he lived, that of ancient Greek culture and learning, and that of Christian faith lived in the liturgy and expressed in the Scripture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019947224

Get Book

A Statement of the Trinitarian Principle, or law of tri-personality by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gilles P. Emery,Matthew Levering
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191617638

Get Book

The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity by Gilles P. Emery,Matthew Levering Pdf

This handbook examines the history of Trinitarian theology and reveals the Nicene unity still at work among Christians today despite ecumenical differences and the variety of theological perspectives. The forty-three chapters are organized into the following seven parts: the Trinity in Scripture, Patristic witnesses to the Trinitarian faith, Medieval appropriations of the Trinitarian faith, the Reformation through to the 20th Century, Trinitarian Dogmatics, the Trinity and Christian life, and Dialogues (addressing ecumenical, interreligious, and cultural interactions). The phrase 'Trinitarian faith' can hardly be understood outside of reference to the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople and to their reception: the doctrine of the Trinity is indissociably connected to the reading of Scripture through the ecclesial and theological traditions. The modern period is characterized especially by the arrival of history, under two principal aspects: 'historical theology' and 'philosophies of history'. In contemporary theology, the principal 'theological loci' are Trinity and creation, Trinity and grace, Trinity and monotheism, Trinity and human life (ethics, society, politics and culture), and more broadly Trinity and history. In all these areas, this handbook offers essays that do justice to the diversity of view points, while also providing, insofar as possible, a coherent ensemble.

Author : Lisanne Winslow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532684135

Get Book

A Trinitarian Theology of Nature by Lisanne Winslow Pdf

In its attempt to ascertain the mechanisms of nature, contemporary science seems to be generating unanswerable questions. One way forward might be by appealing to a theistic metaphysics of the fundamental workings in natural science. Moving beyond Barth’s objection to natural theology, this work arrives at some of Emil Brunner’s exegetical insights indicating that nature is divine communication. This communication and revelation is understood through natural types, or onto-types, building upon the insights of Jonathan Edwards. Edwards proposed messages in nature as a language of God intending to convey spiritual, biblical, and theological messages to the creature as part of God’s end in creating. Edwards’s insights are brought forth to determine the usefulness of his typological method all the way down to cellular and molecular mechanisms. Edwards also proposed that God’s acting in nature reflects the Trinitarian God of the Christian faith. Therefore, a Trinitarian theology of Nature composing a Theo-logy of Nature, a Christology of Nature, and a Pneumatology of Nature explores how each divine person of the Godhead acts in perichoretic unity in the world we encounter. God’s Trinitarian powerful and magnificent glory is not merely displayed by what has been made, but is also intimately shared in a gospel of nature.

Author : JT Paasch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199646371

Get Book

Divine Production in Late Medieval Trinitarian Theology by JT Paasch Pdf

This book examines the central ideas that defined the debate about divine production in the Trinity in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, namely those of Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. Their discussions are significant for the history of trinitarian theology and the history of philosophy.

Author : Brandon Gallaher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198744603

Get Book

Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology by Brandon Gallaher Pdf

Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology examines the tension between God and the world through a constructive reading of the Trinitarian theologies and Christologies of Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944), Karl Barth (1886-1968), and Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988). It focuses on what is called "the problematic of divine freedom and necessity" and the response of the writers. "Problematic" refers to God being simultaneously radically free and utterly bound to creation. God did not need to create and redeem the world in Christ. It is a contingent free gift. Yet, on the other side of a dialectic, he also has eternally determined himself to be God as Jesus Christ. He must create and redeem the world to be God as he has so determined. In this way the world is given a certain "free necessity" by him because if there were no world then there would be no Christ. A spectrum of different concepts of freedom and necessity and a theological ideal of a balance between the same are outlined and then used to illumine the writers and to articulate a constructive response to the problematic. Brandon Gallaher shows that the classical Christian understanding of God having a non-necessary relationship to the world and divine freedom being a sheer assertion of God's will must be completely rethought. Gallaher proposes a Trinitarian, Christocentric, and cruciform vision of divine freedom. God is free as eternally self-giving, self-emptying and self-receiving love. The work concludes with a contemporary theology of divine freedom founded on divine election.

Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199535293

Get Book

Biblical Natural Law by Matthew Levering Pdf

An introduction to natural law theory and a challenge to re-think current biblical scholarship on the topic. Levering establishes the relevance of a biblical worldview to the contemporary pursuit of a moral life and locates his argument in the context of the philosophical development of natural law theory from Cicero to Nietzsche.

Author : Adonis Vidu
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467461993

Get Book

The Same God Who Works All Things by Adonis Vidu Pdf

Classical Trinitarianism holds that every action of Trinity in the world is inseparable. That is, the divine persons are equally active in every operation. But then, in what way did the Father create the world through Christ? How can only the Son be incarnate, die, and be resurrected? Why does Christ have to ascend before the Spirit may come? These and many other questions pose serious objections to the doctrine of inseparable operations. In the first book-length treatment of this doctrine, Adonis Vidu takes up these questions and offers a conceptual and dogmatic analysis of this essential axiom, engaging with recent and historical objections. Taking aim at a common “soft” interpretation of the inseparability rule, according to which the divine persons merely cooperate and work in concert with one another, Vidu argues for the retrieval of “hard inseparability,” which emphasizes the unity of divine action, primarily drawing from the patristic and medieval traditions. Having probed the biblical foundations of the rule and recounted the story of its emergence in nascent Trinitarianism and its neglect in modern theology, Vidu builds a constructive case for its retrieval. The rule is then tested precisely on the battlegrounds that were thought to have witnessed its defeat: the doctrines of creation, incarnation, atonement, ascension, and the indwelling of the Spirit. What emerges is a constructive account of theology in which the recovery of this dogmatic rule shines fresh light on ancient doctrines.

Author : Gerald R. McDermott,Harold A. Netland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199376599

Get Book

A Trinitarian Theology of Religions by Gerald R. McDermott,Harold A. Netland Pdf

Named by the International Bulletin of Missionary Studies as an Outstanding Book of 2014 for Mission Studies Over the last four decades, evangelical scholars have shown growing interest in Christian debates over other religions, seeking answers to essential questions: How are we to think about and relate to other religions, be open to the Spirit, and at the same time remain evangelical and orthodox? Gerald R. McDermott and Harold A. Netland offer critiques of a variety of theologians and religious studies scholars, including evangelicals, but also challenge evangelicals to move beyond parochial positions. This volume is both a manifesto and a research program, critically evaluating the last forty years of Christian treatments of religious others and proposing a comprehensive direction for the future. It addresses issues relating to the religions in both systematic theology and missiology, taking up long-debated questions such as contextualization, salvation, revelation, the relationship between culture and religion, conversion, social action, and ecumenism. It concludes with responses from four leading thinkers of African, Asian, and European backgrounds: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Vinoth Ramachandra, Lamin Sanneh, and Christine Schirrmacher.

Author : Matthew L. Becker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567025306

Get Book

The Self-giving God and Salvation History by Matthew L. Becker Pdf

Analyzes Johannes von Hofmann's entire theological oeuvre.