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Immanent and Economic Trinity
Immanent and Economic Trinity Mark P. Hertenstein
The immanent and the economic Trinity refer to the distinction and relation of the Trinity in its immanent and economic aspects.
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The immanent and the economic Trinity refer to the distinction and relation of the Trinity in its immanent and economic aspects. This is a central concern of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. This article explores (1) the development of the concepts relevant to this doctrinal locus tha...
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- Mark P. Hertenstein
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Jesus as the Pattern of Love in Atonement
Abelard understands love to be the special characteristic of the Holy Spirit within the Trinity, and it is the Spirit who reactivates the love of human beings for their creator.
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This article discusses the interpretation of the Christian doctrine of atonement which is usually called the ‘moral influence’ theory. A close analysis will suggest that this theory is better called ‘persuasive love’, since the revelation of God’s love in the death of Christ is central to...
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- Paul Fiddes
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The Theology of the Council of Nicaea
The Theology of the Council of Nicaea Rebecca Lyman
The Council of Nicaea in 325 was a critical theological and institutional watershed between the local and often diverse theologies of one God as Trinity in the second- and third-century Christian communities and the universal or catholic credal statements of the ancient imperial church that developed over the course of the fourth century.
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The Council of Nicaea in 325 was a critical theological and institutional watershed between the local and often diverse theologies of one God as Trinity in the second- and third-century Christian communities and the universal or catholic credal statements of the ancient imperial church th...
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- Rebecca Lyman
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Music in the Western Theological Tradition
Barth could thus speak of Mozart’s music as ‘theology’, a ‘miraculous’ phenomenon akin to ‘revelation’, ‘mediating’ the constant praise of the cosmos, but only insofar as these claims comport with scripture and the gospel to which scripture testifies ( Moseley 2011 ).
3.4.2 Christology and Trinity
Although Barth attends to music largely in light of his doctrine of creation, his theology as a whole is shaped by a scripturally grounded focus on Christology, linked to a robust ontology of the Trinity.
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This entry examines the ways in which Christian theology has shaped and elucidated the activities of music-making and music-hearing, and in turn how musical practices have been appropriated to advance the enterprise of theology. Attention is focused primarily (though not exclusively) on textl...
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- Jeremy Begbie
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Christian Experience: A Catholic View
The Holy Spirit who, as Augustine said, is the one in whom the Father and the Son are united ( The Trinity , 6.5.7; 2015 : 210–211 ), acts in history according to what he is eternally.
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Christian experience, from a Catholic perspective, is understood as a transformative encounter with God that is facilitated by grace and the Holy Spirit. This experience is not merely an intellectual acknowledgment of Christ but involves an affective awareness of his presence and the signif...
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- Antonio López
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Divine Simplicity
Answers to such questions have obvious implications for any Christian doctrine of the Trinity, since they directly affect how one understands both the distinction and unity of the trinitarian persons.
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The conceptual notion of divine simplicity is a contested one, both in modern continental Christian theology and contemporary analytic philosophy. Nevertheless, it is of central importance in the patristic and scholastic traditions of mainstream Christian theology and has a place in signifi...
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- Thomas Joseph White O.P.
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The Goodness, Holiness, and Love of God
This inquiry will always be undergirded by a simple word, and that is ‘grace’, what Augustine calls ‘the grace of our creator and saviour’ ( The Trinity : V.2; 2001 ). Grace is necessary because we ‘can never think about him [God] as he deserves’ ( The Trinity : V.1; 2001 ).
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What is true of God? And what is God like? What are God’s qualities? These are perennial questions in theology. These questions receive an answer via the doctrine of the divine attributes. The doctrine unfolds God’s names, what is true of the one essence of the one God, Father, Son, and Hol...
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- Christopher R. J. Holmes
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Grace in Roman Catholic Theology
In a wholly unmerited way, the Spirit of the risen Christ becomes present in the church and in each believer, who thus shares in divine life expressed in a personal relationship with the Trinity and, in the creating Trinity, with the whole of the created world.
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Grace may be described as the gratuitous self-communication of God through Christ in the Holy Spirit. The term also refers to the living, actual, and continuous experience humans have of this saving event. In a wholly unmerited way, the Spirit of the risen Christ becomes present in the chur...
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- Paul O’Callaghan and Catalina Vial de Amesti
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Orthodox Pastoral Theology
Going one step further, the starting point in approaching God and in trying to understand divine life is the understanding of God as Trinity, as a ‘social being’, as a being living in a perpetual communion of love.
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This brief article delineates Orthodox pastoral theology by chiefly emphasizing the organic connection between Liturgical/sacramental life and social/pastoral involvement in the Christian Orthodox tradition. It shows how Orthodox pastoral theology, in encompassing the entire life of the Chu...
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- Razvan Porumb
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Franciscan Theology
Basing his argument on the meaning of the word scientia , Ockham demonstrates that statements of faith are precisely that; because we have no simple cognition of God in this life, there is no sense in which any assertion about the existence of God, the divine essence as Trinity, or the immortality of the human soul could be demonstrated in a scientific manner.
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This article emphasizes the particular contours that define the Franciscan theological paradigm as a distinct contribution to the discipline of Roman Catholic theology. Grounded in the lives of Francis and Clare of Assisi, the tradition unfolds as a Wisdom tradition, both christocentric and...
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- Mary Beth Ingham
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