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The Trinity, Election and God's Ontological Freedom: A Response to Kevin W. Hector
Author(s) -
MOLNAR PAUL D.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of systematic theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1468-2400
pISSN - 1463-1652
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2006.00215.x
Subject(s) - omnipotence , philosophy , dialectic , creatures , relation (database) , theology , identity (music) , logos bible software , epistemology , aesthetics , history , archaeology , database , computer science , natural (archaeology)
A recent article by Kevin Hector considered the disagreement between Bruce McCormack and me over the relationship between the doctrines of election and the Trinity raising a number of crucial issues such as the proper relation of the immanent and economic Trinity, the nature of God's freedom and the identity of the logos asarkos . In this article I explore how and why Barth's dialectical understanding of the triune God's freedom from and for creatures disallowed equating God's ontological freedom with election in the manner suggested by McCormack and Hector, because that would reduce God's omnipotence to his omnicausality, the immanent to the economic Trinity.