A critical assessment of Bruce L. McCormack's christological proposal
Bruce L. McCormack's recent christological proposal intends to move beyond the apparent impasse in theological discourse between God's aseity and God's world relation. In describing the second mode of divine being as personally constituted by receptivity to the human Jesus of Nazareth...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2024
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2024, Volume: 77, Issue: 2, Pages: 149-162 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
McCormack, Bruce L. 1952-
/ Christology
/ Ontotheology
/ God
/ Incarnation
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBC Doctrine of God NBF Christology |
Further subjects: | B
Christology
B doctrine of God B Chalcedon B Bruce L. McCormack |
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Summary: | Bruce L. McCormack's recent christological proposal intends to move beyond the apparent impasse in theological discourse between God's aseity and God's world relation. In describing the second mode of divine being as personally constituted by receptivity to the human Jesus of Nazareth without losing the logos asarkos, McCormack's proposed christological innovation offers a way to consider relation to the world as proper to God through the Son, without absolute pronobeity coming to dominate in the doctrine of God. This being said, his christological proposal, as it stands, implies both that election is antecedent to triunity and that the person of Jesus of Nazareth is antecedent to the act of the incarnation. With the former comes the problem of sequence in the priority of divine act over divine being. With the latter comes the problem of offering a unified account of two agencies. As such, while ontological receptivity continues to hold significant possibilities for the doctrine of God, it requires more careful coordination to the relation of passive generation as such. |
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ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930623000686 |