Whether Christ is God of Himself, or Christ is God by the Father?
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“For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in Himself;”
Jn. 5:26
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Subsection
Communication of Divine Nature
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Order of Contents
Articles 5
Historical 4
Latin 1
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Articles
1200’s
Aquinas – Compendium of Theology, pt. 1
ch. 63, ‘Personal Acts & Personal Properties’
ch. 64, ‘Generation with Respect to the Father & with Respect to the Son’
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1600’s
Rutherford – ‘Whether the Son is Authotheos?’ in ch. 2, ‘On God’ in Rutherford’s Examination of Arminianism: The Tables of Contents with
Excerpts from Every Chapter trans. T. Fentiman & C. Johnson (RBO, 2019), pp. 50-51
Featley, Daniel – pp. 17-18 of Sacra nemesis, The Levite’s Scourge, or, Mercurius Disciplined… (Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1644)
Cheynell, Francis – pp. 230-35 in ch. 7 in The Divine Trinunity of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit… (London, 1650)
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1700’s
De Moore, Bernardinus – ‘The Son as Authotheos’, pt. 1, 2, 3 in Continuous Commentary, ch. 5, ‘On the Trinity’
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Historical Theology
On the Post-Reformation
Muller, Richard – pt. 2, ch. 6.3, ‘The Aseitas, or Self-Existence of the Son’ in Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: the Rise & Development of Reformed Theology, ca. 1520 – ca. 1725, vol. 4, The Triunity of God 2nd ed. (Baker Books, 2003), pp. 324-33
Johnson, Charles – ‘Resources on άυτόθεος’ (2020)
This (ongoing) collection of sources provides excerpts from:
Medieval:
Anselm;
Essence is communicated from the Father:
Rollock, Gomarus, Synopsis of Pure Theology, Voet, Hoornbeek, Hutcheson, Turretin;
Essence is not communicated from the Father:
Calvin, Trelcatius Jr., Maccovius, Rutherford, Leydekker.
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On Calvin
Article
Swinburnson, Benjamin – ‘John Calvin, Eternal Generation & Communication of Essence: A Reexamination of His Views’ The Journal of Northwest Theological Seminary, vol. 25, no. 1 (May 2010), pp. 26-49
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Book
Ellis, Brannon – Calvin, Classical Trinitarianism, & the Aseity of the Son (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012) 260 pp. ToC
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Latin
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert & Francis Gomarus – 27. ‘A Treatise of Francis Gomarus on Christ, Autotheos, with Notes’ in Voet, Select Theological Disputations (Utrecht: Waesberg, 1648), vol. 1, pp. 442-66
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