For much of the history of the church, this creedal pattern gave rise to the classical trinitarian structure in theological construction. |
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Its beliefs are based on a trinitarian God, which means continual community within the Godhead. |
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Whereas Augustine focuses on the trinitarian nature of God, Denys picks up the Johannine interest in the divine attributes. |
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Since the patristic era, theologians have taught that at the heart of the eternal divine dynamic is the relationship between the first and second trinitarian persons. |
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It excludes dualism, trinitarian monotheism and all the pantheistic forms of monism. |
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One aspect of these debates concerns the self-consistency of trinitarian theology. |
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Clarke attempts to recast the debate, taking a middle course between Socinian unitarianism and more mainstream trinitarian views. |
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This vision is a trinitarian one: the Father is always to be found at the center. |
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What are the implications of trinitarian theology for how we relate to each other within this communion? |
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It is clear that neo-Scholastic trinitarian theology does not provide all the answers for contemporary believers. |
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He supports a panentheist view and the recovery of a trinitarian theology of God. |
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It is dialogical, anamnestic, trinitarian, and therapeutic in a culture in which the individual is unable to stand alone and remain human. |
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A brief definition of the trinitarian God of orthodox faith would then be all that a fundamental theology would need. |
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Critics point out that if 'familial unity' is all there is to trinitarian oneness, and so all that is required for monotheism, then it is hard to see why various polytheistic systems fail to count as versions of monotheism. |
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And since the will to undertake the redemptive Kenosis is itself indivisibly trinitarian. |
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Augustine is arguably a one-self trinitarian. |
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Though Philoponus had his followers, trinitarian philosophy of this kind could hardly be palatable to anyone not committed before all else to Aristotle's ontology. |
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These theologians claim that a properly trinitarian doctrine emphasizes God's freedom to love all people, rather than choosing some for salvation and others for damnation. |
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For Work, the ecclesiological, trinitarian foundation of theology alters the terrain and moves bibliology into an orthodox trinitarian perspective. |
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And this, perhaps, leaves the door open for the social Trinitarian to make the case that divine unity is not lost on his view after all. |
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As a springing forth of the Spirit of God back towards God, worship localizes the Trinitarian well. |
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Fourthly, the New Testament leaves us in no doubt that the gospel scheme, though Christocentric in execution, was Trinitarian in its parameters. |
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Of the discursive chapters, Duck's review of Trinitarian language in English-language hymnody is probably the most illuminating. |
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The hymns for the feasts of Christ and his Mother constitute a course in patristic Christology and Trinitarian theology. |
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They became ditheist to try to recruit money in the United States from the Protestant Trinitarian system. |
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Certainly, an important aspect of such recovery is its contribution to contemporary developments in Trinitarian thought. |
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If this Trinitarian model of persuasion were to be adopted, what would some of the consequences be for the way we are the Church? |
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That is to say, Trinitarian doctrine was moving towards formalization because it quite simply needed rules. |
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We do not make a Sabellian error simply for the fact that Sabellian modalism is Unitarian, and not Trinitarian. |
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That removes him from the strictly Arian camp but still leaves him short of a robust Trinitarian orthodoxy. |
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Thus, this work is a contribution to the development of Trinitarian doctrine, not an attempt at an authoritative explication of that doctrine. |
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This is from one of the great Theological Orations which he preached while there, speeches which have become known as bastions of Trinitarian and Christological orthodoxy. |
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A memorial service for Lauren Astley was held July 16, with nearly one-thousand mourners filing into the local Trinitarian Church. |
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In the first place, Orthodox Trinitarian doctrine cannot afford to emphasize either substance at the expense of personae or personae at the expense of substance. |
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They much admired Marius Victorinus, whose last years had been devoted to the deployment of Neoplatonic logic in defence of orthodox Trinitarian belief. |
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Here he brings out a rather different flavour of reflection or the place of the Passion in Trinitarian theology from that of Bulgakov on the other theologians in this section. |
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Secondly, Trinitarian thought has enjoyed a revival of late precisely because theologians have shown its relevance to contemporary social concerns. |
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On the surface, Watson's emphasis on biblical theology and Vanhoozer's Trinitarian hermeneutics seem somewhat compatible, but there are crucial differences. |
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The most pressing question becomes whether or not Watson's biblical theological approach can coexist peaceably with Vanhoozer's Trinitarian approach. |
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Their analysis can usually be faulted on grounds not of unsophistication, but of insufficient familiarity with the complexities of Scholastic or Eastern Trinitarian thinking. |
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Using the German vernacular they expressed the Apostles' Creed in simpler, more personal, Trinitarian language. |
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He approaches Trinitarian theology through the lens of analytic philosophy. |
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Using the German vernacular, they expressed the Apostles' Creed in simpler, more personal, Trinitarian language. |
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The resolution of this Trinitarian dispute included the development of doctrine about angels. |
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Those who had been baptized in the Trinitarian fashion needed to submit to rebaptism in Jesus' name. |
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