Wrath Among the Perfections of God's Life

ISBN-13: 9780567103109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str.

Jeremy J. Wynne

Opis

Late-modern theology is marked by persistent and widespread uncertainty as to how the wrath of God can be taken up as a legitimate theme within dogmatics. Rather than engage the most fundamental task of clarifying the inner logic by which God's identity is revealed in scripture, privilege has been ceded either to cultural and textual criticism, to ostensibly self-evident moral sensibilities, or to the thematization of religious experience. The present work sets out to rectify this misstep. The result is a rigorous proposal for understanding wrath expressly within the doctrine of God, as a redemptive mode of divine righteousness.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments §1 A Systematic Approach Reconsidered 1.1 Theological Approaches to the Topic of Wrath 1.2 Renewed Interest in the Divine Perfections 1.3 Purpose, Plan and Limitations PART ONE §2 The Subject Matter of the Doctrine of the Divine Perfections: Content Impressing Form 2.1 The Living God 2.2 The Self-Named God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit 2.3 The Eternal God §3 The Arrangement and Inner Logic of the Divine Perfections:Form Reflecting Content 3.1 Efficiency and the Way of Intensification: Francis Turretin on the Reformed Orthodoxy Arrangement of the Attributes 3.2 Beyond the Subjectivity of Morals and Doctrine: Friedrich Schleiermacher on the Attributes which Relate to the Immediate Self-Consciousness 3.3 An Overflowing Depth: Karl Barth on God's Love in Freedom Modes of Divine Perfection PART TWO §4 The Lord's Vineyard and the Rule of his Generosity: Matthew 20:1-16 and Isaiah 5:1-7 4.1 The Image of the Vineyard 4.2 The Righteousness of God: Self-Identical in Every Mode 4.3 The Living Parable §5 Wrath, Righteousness, and the Acquittal of the Guilty: Romans 3:21-26 and Exodus 34:6-7 5.1 Sinners under God's Wrath 5.2 The Gift of Jesus Christ: Wrath and the Exchange of Death for Life 5.3 Acquittal of the Guilty §6 Publication of Salvation and Final Judgment: Revelation 14:14-20 .... and Amos 3:2 6.1 The Righteous God, the Hope of the Persecuted 6.2 Wrath, History and the Divine Pedagogy Bibliography Subject Index Scripture Index