The New Evangelical Subordinationism?

by Jowers, Dennis W.; House, H. Wayne

• ISBN13: 9781608998524
• ISBN10: 1608998525
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-16
• Publisher: Pickwick Pubns

Summary

Whether and in what sense the Son of God might eternally submit to his Father's will is a question that has ignited a firestorm of controversy in today's evangelical academy. On one side stand those who regard the affirmation of any inequality whatsoever in the Godhead as a revival of ancient subordinationism. On the other stand persons who consider the Son functionally subordinate to the Father even within the immanent Trinity, without respect to the Incarnation, and regard their belief as integral to historic orthodoxy. Many evangelicals, moreover, view the issue of subordination within the Trinity as pivotal to contemporary disputes about the role of women in church, home, and state. If the relations of the divine persons constitute a paradigm for human life, persons on all sides of the gender question argue, human relations ought to reflect either the divine persons' exceptionless equality or their orderly differentiation of roles. At the same time, others consider the issues of equality in the Trinity and gender relations irrelevant to each other and accuse both complementarians and evangelical feminists of degrading the doctrine of the Trinity into a partisan weapon. The New Evangelical Subordinationism? gathers commentary on evangelical debates about equality and subordination in the Trinity from representatives of the gamut of perspectives just mentioned. Here, evangelical theologians, biblical scholars, and church historians of widely differing theological orientations address themselves to the panoply of questions raised by these debates. This volume, unprecedented in the breadth and depth of its coverage of the controversy over subordination in the Trinity, should become a standard source for teaching and research on its subject.

Author Biography

Dennis W. Jowers is Professor of Theology and Apologetics at Faith Evangelical College and Seminary. H. Wayne House is Distinguished Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Faith Evangelical College and Seminary.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
The New Evangelical Subordinationism: Reading Inequality into the Trinity	p. 1
Equal in Essence, Distinct in Roles: Eternal Functional Authority and Submission among the Essentially Equal Divine Persons of the Godhead	p. 13
Subordination within the Trinity: John 5:18 and 1 Cor 15:28	p. 39
"Son" Christology in the New Testament	p. 59
Christ's Functional Subordination in Philippians 2:6: A Grammatical Note with Trinitarian Implications	p. 82
Trinitarian Agency and the Eternal Subordination of the Son: An Augustinian Perspective	p. 108
The Eternal Relational Subordination of the Son to the Father in Patristic Thought	p. 133
The Formula of Baptism and the Equality of the Godhead: Joseph Bingham (1668-1723) and the Trinitarian Controversy in Late-Stuart England	p. 182
An Evangelical Statement on the Trinity	p. 213
Biblical Evidence for the Eternal Submission of the Son to the Father	p. 223
The Trinity without Tiers	p. 262
Subordination in the Trinity and Gender Roles: A Response to Recent Discussion	p. 288
Relation and Person: Potential Contributions of Karl Rahner's Theology to Evangelical Trinitarian Debates	p. 311
A Trinitarian Model of Marriage	p. 325
Complementarian Trinitarianism: Divine Revelation is Finally True to the Eternal Personal Relations	p. 339
The Inconceivability of Subordination within a Simple God	p. 375
Conclusion	p. 411
List of Contributors	p. 415
Subject Index	p. 417
Names Index	p. 420
Scripture Index	p. 429
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