The Communion of the Son with the Father
Chapter 5 proceeds by way of engagement with Keith Ward’s recent argument against any theology that would posit eternal love between the divine persons. What can we say about the relationship of the eternal Son to his Father? Is love shared between the divine persons? Or would that entail polytheism? The prayer of Jesus in John 17 would seem to be relevant to this question, and the interpretation of that prayer is central to this chapter. The chapter first clarifies some aspects of the recent debates over “Social Trinitarianism.” With this background in mind, it then turns to an analysis of Ward’s intriguing proposal, and offers a counter proposal that is grounded in an interpretation of Johannine theology.
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