Divinity Compromised

Cover -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Assessing the Progress of Research Since 1952 -- 2. The Contents of this Study -- DIVINE ACCOMMODATION IN THE TRADITION AND CALVIN -- 1. Accommodation in Christian Tradition -- 2. Calvin and the Tradition; A Preliminary Sketch of Calvin's Thought on the Motif -- 2.1 Texts Touching on Contact Between God and the World -- 2.2 Angels: Psalm 91: 11, 12 and Psalm 34: 7 -- 2.3 Divine Promises: Hosea 2: 19-22 -- 2.4 OT case laws: Exodus 21: 7-11 -- 2.5 Summary -- HUMAN CAPTUS -- 1. Human Nature in Calvin -- 1.1 Historical Background -- 1.2 Calvin Studies and Calvin -- 1.3 Sin and the 'totus homo' -- 2. Human Captus in Calvin's Thought in Relation to Accommodation -- 2.1 Assessing Opinion on this Issue -- 2.2 Human Capacity: A Survey of its Various Senses -- 2.3 The Various Senses Reviewed -- 3. Analyzing Calvin's Teaching on Human Captus: the Recipients of Accommodation -- 3.1 Human Beings as Creatures -- 3.2 Human Beings as Sinners -- 3.3 Israel as Primitive Nation -- 3.4 Human Beings as Either the Wicked or the Godly -- 4. Conclusion -- GOD'S ACCOMMODATING RESPONSES TO HUMAN CAPTUS -- 1. God's Accommodating According to Calvin -- 1.1 When God Instructs -- 1.2 When God Legislates and Commands -- 1.3 When God Sanctions Religious Rites and Practices, and Receives the Worship of his People -- 1.4 When God Pastors his Flock -- 1.5 When God Comes to Earth -- 1.6 When God Covenants -- 2. Conclusion -- 2.1 Reviewing the Chapter -- 2.2 Assessing Findings up to this Point -- GOD'S REASONS FOR ACCOMMODATING-IMAGES OF GOD IN CALVIN'S HANDLING OF ACCOMMODATION -- 1. An Introduction to Calvin's Statements on God's Reasons for Accommodating -- 1.1 Reference to a Motive -- 1.2 Reference to a Cause -- 1.3 Reference to a Purpose -- 1.4 Reference to a Contingency with Which God Must Deal -- 2. Earlier Portraits of Calvin's Accommodating God -- 3. Images of Calvin's Accommodating God -- 3.1 Transcendent and Incomprehensible; Good and Loving -- 3.2 Practical and Productive -- 3.3 Expedient, Pragmatic -- 3.4 Unprincipled, Desperate -- 3.5 Anxious, Obsessive -- 3.6 Tender, Tolerant, Enslaved -- 4. Conclusion -- ACCOMMODATION AND CALVIN'S THINKING ON THE POWER OF GOD -- 1. Calvin and the Potentia Absoluta/Ordinata Distinction -- 1.1 A Brief History of the Distinction -- 1.2 Calvin and the Distinction -- 2. Accommodation and the Potentia Ordinata in Calvin -- 2.1 The Created Order -- 2.2 The Order of Salvation -- 3. Conclusion -- THE VOLATILITY OF ACCOMMODATION -- 1. Scripture, Meaning and Truth -- 2. Scripture, Meaning and Application -- 2.1 Examples of Calvin's Treating of Divine Injunctions -- 2.2 Assessing Calvin's Treatment of the Law -- 3. Conclusion -- CON.