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Probing the Exegetical Foundations of Consubstantiality: Worship, Mediatorial Figures, and the Homoousion
Author(s) -
Butner D. Glenn
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/moth.12665
Subject(s) - christology , philosophy , worship , warrant , scholarship , theology , new testament , monotheism , epistemology , islam , law , political science , financial economics , economics
This article explores the question of whether modern theologians can adopt pro‐Nicene theology on the basis of modern biblical studies. It argues that under two hermeneutic assumptions (identified as the canon principle and inspiration principle), key data assessed in the Christological monotheism debates provides warrant for pro‐Nicene defenses of consubstantiality. Three features of Athanasius’s Contra Arianos are explored in dialogue with modern biblical scholarship to defend this claim: Athanasius’s variegated mediatorial Christology, his emphasis on Christ as preeminent mediator, and his appeals to cultic worship of Christ in the New Testament.