Index
Index
Adam, 30, 83, 100–101, 104, 110, 112, 116–18, 120–21, 130, 148–52, 154–56, 163, 186n14, 189n6, 190n7. See also covenant: Adamic; fall, Adam’s
adoption, 3, 104, 147, 151–52, 171, 187n43
Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, 1–2, 5–6, 8, 17–18, 117
allegory, 169
analogical vision of reality, 41, 43
Anatolios, Khaled, 85
Anomians, 17
Antioch, Council of, 11
Apollinaris, 120
Apostles’ Creed, 89
Arius, 1–5, 8, 10, 16–20, 22–23, 34–35, 47, 90, 135
asceticism, 165–66, 193n8
Athanasius
on Arianism, 7, 14, 23–24, 33–34, 38, 63, 145
on the Holy Spirit, 17, 77, 80
life of, 6, 8–15
Life of Antony, 169–70
On the Incarnation, 117, 120
patrology of, 61, 63–66
on Scripture, 6, 15, 17, 22, 25, 29, 31, 44, 47–48, 50–51, 53, 73, 77, 79–80, 98, 114–15, 151, 162, 167–69, 182n19
trinitarian theology of, 61, 86, 89
See also Christology: Athanasius’s
atonement, 124, 154–56
attributes
divine, 68, 75–77, 127, 140, 142, 145, 159, 170, 189n5
human, 121, 122, 144
Augustine, 75, 76, 77, 83, 86, 89, 101–2, 114
baptism, 35, 46–47, 86, 155, 161
Barnes, Timothy, 15
Barth, Karl, 27–28, 59, 119
begetting, 50, 82, 69, 70. See also generation, divine
Behr, John, 60–61, 92, 126, 142
Christ
anointing of, 154, 157–58
as apostle, 41
ascension of, 116, 157
life of, 86, 162
professed ignorance of in Gospels, 124–25, 132–33
suffering of, 143–44
See also incarnation; Son
Christian life, 170–73
Christology
Arian, 2–4, 15–19, 63–65, 160
Athanasius’s, 66–77, 89, 120, 123, 125–26, 130, 133–34, 173, 181n8
orthodox, 128
classical trinitarianism, 84–85
Constantine, 5–6, 8–10, 18, 21, 173
Constantius, 10–14, 17
controversy
Arian, 1, 2, 5–6, 10, 15–16, 18, 178n8, 179n36
Pelagian, 102
council, Nicene, 8, 17, 20, 34, 36
covenant
Adamic, 100–101, 110, 118
new, 31, 149–51
creation, 42–43, 66, 72–73, 83–84, 89–94, 109, 114, 136, 139, 147
creator/creature distinction, 48, 66–68, 89–91, 114–15, 126
cross, 18, 22, 25, 54, 58, 92, 116, 134–35, 137–41, 143–45, 154–57, 164, 169, 173, 181n9. See also Christ: life of; God: impassibility of; love, divine; passibility, divine
definition, Nicene, 36–37
deification, 61–62, 68, 79, 95, 116, 129, 153, 156, 159–63, 170–71
de Lubac, Henri, 102, 105–8, 112–15
dēmiourgos, 65
demons, 18, 54, 130–31, 156, 158–59, 164, 166, 169–70. See also spiritual warfare
dependency of Father and Son, 88, 98
Dionysius, 7, 35, 38–39
double finality, 106–7
economic Trinity. See Trinity: economic
essence
of created things, 93, 103
divine 5, 67–68, 72, 104, 111
See also attributes: divine; creation; creator/creature distinction
Eusebius
of Caesarea, 5, 9, 23, 65
of Nicomedia, 2, 5, 9
fall, Adam’s, 93, 186n14, 189n7
Father
eternity of, 44–45, 63
image of, 22, 37, 44, 47, 52–53, 67, 70, 75, 87, 92, 109, 117–18
Son/Word as proper to, 45, 47–49, 54, 62, 64, 66–70, 72, 75–77, 86, 88, 91, 100, 110–11, 119, 125, 127, 133, 145, 153, 160, 175
transcendence of, 18
as Unbegotten, 2, 65
as Unoriginate, 23–24, 34–35, 37, 64–65
feasting, 31, 166
formula
baptismal, 35, 46, 161
Nicene, 16–17, 177n1
fountain/stream paradigm, 47, 68, 77–78
generation, divine, 42, 48, 50–51, 70, 180n36
George, bishop of Alexandria, 14
Gibbon, Edward, 15, 65
gift
of Spirit, 31, 78–79, 86
within Trinity, 5, 8, 87, 157–59, 161, 171
God
freedom of, 58, 105, 108, 139
image of, 4, 51, 62, 74, 95, 115–19, 157, 159, 164–65
impassibility of, 21, 52, 135, 138, 140–42, 145–46, 169–70, 183n24
infinity of, 58, 136, 138
self-othering of, 136–37
transcendence of, 97
See also attributes: divine; Christ; essence: divine; Father; generation, divine; grace: divine; love, divine; nature: of God; passibility, divine; personhood, divine; Son
grace
in creation, 100, 109, 116, 147–48, 153
divine, 4, 31, 46, 48, 108, 130, 160–61
existence as, 104, 116
in history, 148
of the Spirit, 54, 69, 79–80, 110, 157–58
See also light/radiance paradigm; nature: and grace distinction
greed, 118, 167
Gregory Nazianzen, 6
Gregory of Cappadocia, 11, 14
Harnack, Adolf von, 15, 19–21
Hart, David Bentley, 57–58, 86, 114
Hegel, 135–37, 140–41
Hegelianism, 58
hellenization
Arianism as, 23–24
in the early church, 19–22, 140
in theological language, 34
homoiousios, 17, 65, 75
homoousios, 17, 20, 36–37, 65, 75
Horton, Michael, 100–101
hospitality, 31, 167
humanity
creation of, 91, 101, 109, 113
deification of, 62, 104, 129, 153, 160–63
generation of, 42, 48, 51–52
mortality of, 163
passibility of, 52
perfection of, 49, 62, 82, 162, 164
See also creation; God: self-othering of; incarnation; nature: of creation
idolatry, 25, 92, 96, 121, 155, 173
image. See Father: image of; God: image of
immanent Trinity. See Trinity: immanent
immortality, 62, 105, 119, 144, 163, 170
impassibility, divine, 21, 51–52, 135, 138, 140–46, 169–70
incarnation
Arian view of, 133, 144
grace of, 111, 115–16
in Hegel, 136–37
and new creation, 149, 151
origin of, 147–48
as perichoresis of Word/flesh, 129
as person and work of Christ, 121–23, 126
as priesthood, 154
as proper to the Son, 59, 111, 127, 145, 153, 160
purpose of, 121–23, 130, 159, 171
as revelation of God, 126
typology, 164
Jenson, Robert, 20–21, 86, 141–43
justification, 101–2
kenosis, 80
LaCugna, Catherine Mowry, 20
language
extrabiblical, 18, 33–34, 36–37
scriptural, 35–37
See also formula: baptismal; hellenization
light/radiance paradigm, 44–47, 51, 68, 77–78, 81, 83, 109, 161, 175
love, divine, 58–60, 71, 80–81, 85–88, 92, 115, 121, 131–32, 135, 137–40, 145, 149, 151
Lutheranism, 102, 105
martyrdom, 6, 144, 163–64
Melitians, 8, 15, 177n2
Melitius, 1, 177n2
Milbank, John, 113
modalism, 11, 38, 177n3
Moltmann, Jürgen, 138–41
monasticism, 171
mortality, 96, 132, 163
naturalism, 107
natural/supernatural order, 102–3, 193n5
nature
of creation, 93–96, 98, 100, 109
of God
as artist, 98, 164
as creator, 11, 51, 90, 97, 103, 160
as generative, 45, 84–85
as relational, 59, 75, 136
and grace distinction, 68, 100–105, 109, 115
human, 89, 103–6, 107, 114, 119, 123, 127, 136–37, 156, 162–63, 170
as limitation, 114–15
pure, 101, 105–8
neo-orthodoxy, 99
neoscholasticism, 105–7, 113
nephesh, 120, 190n12
nouvelle théologie, 105, 113
Origen, 2, 141, 165, 180n36
passibility, divine, 52, 135, 138, 141
Pelagianism, 102
Pentecost, 86, 157
perichoresis, 58, 59, 80–81, 129
personhood, divine, 88
Peter, bishop of Alexandria, 1, 6
platonic form, 66
priesthood 7, 154. See also incarnation: as priesthood
quadriga, 30
Rahner, Karl, 57–61, 113–15
“Rahner’s rule,” 57–58
relationality, divine, 59, 64, 75–77, 136
salvation, 18, 10, 21, 40, 60, 86, 107, 112, 120, 132, 165, 173, 181n11
Scheeben, Matthias Joseph, 102–6, 113–15
scholasticism, 100. See also neoscholasticism
Scripture
interpretation
Arian, 2, 4, 22, 24, 33–35, 47, 54, 69–70, 191n25
Catholic, 100
“critical approach,” 27
precritical, 27–28
theological, 27–29
and tradition, 35
tripartite rule, 39–41
typological, 29–33, 169
language of, 34–39, 63, 78, 120–21, 127
paradigms, 39, 41–42, 44, 47–48, 52, 72, 182
skopos, 39–40, 86, 121, 126, 133
See also Athanasius: on Scripture
settlement, Nicene, 15, 36, 75
sin(s), 15, 32, 36, 62, 89, 95–97, 100, 108, 111–12, 118, 122, 128, 130, 131, 135, 139, 144–45, 148–49, 152–56, 158–59, 162, 163, 165, 172, 186n14, 189nn6–7
sociability, 98
social Trinitarianism, 58–59, 86, 88
sōma/sarx, 120–21
Son
creative power of, 43, 49, 65, 84
eternity of, 44–45, 63, 133, 138, 151
exaltation of, 14, 22, 85, 128, 153, 156–57, 160, 167
as expression of Father, 44, 78, 86, 136, 145, 165
as firstborn, 151
immutability of, 16, 163
knowledge of the Father, 16, 59, 124, 132, 162
as mediator, 19, 72–73, 90–91, 150–52
as paradigm of Father, 43
as perfection, 49, 134
as priest, 30, 41
self-knowledge of, 16
as Wisdom, 39–40, 43, 45–46, 49–50, 52, 54, 61, 66, 68–69, 72–73, 75–77, 83–88, 91, 93, 99, 108–10, 126–27, 134, 145, 161–62
as Word, 4–5, 10–11, 14, 16, 23–24, 33–34, 37, 40–41, 43, 45–52, 61, 64, 66, 68–69, 71–77, 80–81, 83–85, 87–92, 100, 109, 111, 116–17, 119–20, 123, 124–35, 141–45, 148–56, 158–63, 167, 175–76
See also Father: Son/Word as proper to
sonship paradigm, 45, 48–49, 51–52, 70
soteriology
Arian, 180n39
Pelagian, 190n8
Protestant, 101
Spirit
anointing of, 157
divinity of, 79
gift of, 31, 78–79, 86, 157–59, 171
as inheritance, 87
as love, 87
participation in, 78, 110, 148, 153
spirit/substance philosophies, 136, 138
spiritual warfare, 53–54, 170
Thalia, 3, 16, 178n10
theodicy, 138
theology, Nicene, 20, 28, 60, 85
Thomas Aquinas, 57, 100, 106–7
transcendence, 95, 97, 107, 113, 138, 160, 162. See also Father: transcendence of
Trinity
economic, 57–60, 86, 111, 127, 142
immanent, 57–61, 86, 136, 142
perichoresis of, 59, 81, 129
in post-reformational theology, 61
See also Athanasius: trinitarian theology of; “Rahner’s rule”
tritheism, 59, 88
typology
of Aaron, 32
of Christian feasting, 30–31
of incarnation, 30, 32, 164
See also Scripture: typological interpretation
Tyre, assembly of, 9, 11
unity
with Christ, 160
of church, 172
in Creation, 109
of Father and Son, 2, 42–43, 46, 62, 68–69, 73–74, 162, 172
with God, 138–39
of Spirit, 167
of Trinity, 23, 44, 59, 172
of Word, 69
Unoriginate. See Father: as Unoriginate
Vatican II, 100, 102
virgin birth, 119
Williams, Rowan, 5, 16–18, 71
Word. See Son: as Word
worship, 19–21, 28, 31, 155, 158, 169