Revelation, Redemption, and Response : Calvin's Trinitarian Understanding of the Divine-Human Relationship - Philip Walker Butin
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Revelation, Redemption, and Response

Calvin's Trinitarian Understanding of the Divine-Human Relationship

By: Philip Walker Butin

Hardcover | 1 June 1997

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How did John Calvin understand and depict God's relationship with humanity? Influential readings of Calvin have seen a dialectical divine-human opposition as fundamental to his thought. As a result, the importance of the doctrine of the Trinity in his understanding of the divine-human relationship has been largely overlooked. In this fresh consideration of Calvin's Christian vision, however, Philip Butin demonstrates Calvin's consistent and pervasive appeal to the Trinity as the basis, pattern, and dynamic of God's relationship with humanity.
Butin examines the historical background, controversial context, and distinctive features of Calvin's Trinity doctrine. He then explores the trinitarian character of Calvin's doctrines concerning revelation, redemption, and human response to God. Finally, his consideration of Calvin's doctrines of the church, baptism, and the eucharist suggests the contextuality, comprehensiveness, and coherence of Calvin's trinitarian vision.
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"Butin has served Calvin scholarship and the whole discipline of historical theology well in this fine study."--Dialog "Butin's scholarly study is a valuable addition to Calvin studies....Calvin scholars will appreciate the clarity and depth of the author's analyses."--Religious Studies Review "Ministers will read this study with intellectual joy and spiritual profit."--The Princeton Seminary Bulletin "Butin's perspective sheds valuable light on subjects which have often vexed scholars....his book offers often dense yet generally rewarding reading....a significant contribution to our understanding of Calvin's teaching..."--Pro Ecclesia "It is a valuable resource for a wide range of scholars and readers. No doubt, the growing body of literature in Calvin studies will reference and engage this important book by Phillip Butin."--The Cresset "Butin has served Calvin scholarship and the whole discipline of historical theology well in this fine study."--Dialog "Butin's scholarly study is a valuable addition to Calvin studies....Calvin scholars will appreciate the clarity and depth of the author's analyses."--Religious Studies Review "Ministers will read this study with intellectual joy and spiritual profit."--The Princeton Seminary Bulletin "Butin's perspective sheds valuable light on subjects which have often vexed scholars....his book offers often dense yet generally rewarding reading....a significant contribution to our understanding of Calvin's teaching..."--Pro Ecclesia "It is a valuable resource for a wide range of scholars and readers. No doubt, the growing body of literature in Calvin studies will reference and engage this important book by Phillip Butin."--The Cresset "...exhaustively documented with endnotes bristling with informative and insightful commentary... well argued. His analysis of preaching, baptism, and eucharist in trinitarian terms will be especially helpful to the pastor-reader. Altogether, Butin's study is a remarkable example of theological thinking in the pastoral mode."--Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society "This fine study...is an excellent model of historical theological scholarship. It will be a significant work with which future scholars must be in dialogue."--Sixteenth Century Journal

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