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The Face of the Trinity The Trinitarian Essential for the Whole of God and Life |
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Contents |
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Note: page numbers correspond with pdf version of study
Ch 1 Introductory Terms................................................1 Historical Terms 1The Stereotyping and Idolizing of God’s Identity 5 Defining Terms Distinguishing God’s Whole Identity 10 The Counter-Relational Reality 15
Ch 2 The Name of God............................................................19 What’s in a Name? 19 The Significance of the Verb 21 The Glory of God’s Name 26The Unity or Whole of YHWH? 33 The Name of the Whole and Uncommon God in Transition 38
Ch 3 The Face of God Embodied in the Word...............41 YHWH Unfolds Embodied in Wholeness 41 The Whole Gospel Unfolds Embodying the Face of God 44 God’s Strategic Shift 48 God’s Tactical Shift 54 God’s Functional Shift 66 The Challenge of Subject Face 72
Ch 4 What the Substantive Face of God Distinguishes.....75 The Pseudonimity of God 76The Ontological Footprints and Functional Steps of God 82 The Essential Relational Outcome 89The Essential Implications of Anything Less and Any Substitutes 94
Ch 5 The Person-al Trinity..........................................101 Continuity and Discontinuity in Trinitarian Thinking 102The Dilemma: To Be or Not To Be 108 The Global Face or Localized Face Masks 115
Ch 6 The Inter-person-al Trinity...................................................127 The Reality of God’s Improbable Theological Trajectory and Intrusive Relational Path 127 The Inter-person-al Dynamics Integral to the Trinity 132 1. Why did YHWH enter the human context? 133 2. How did the triune God engage the human context? 135 Contextual Factor 135 3. What is disclosed of the Trinity while in the human context? 136 Structural and Systemic Factors 136 4. To what extent does this revelation also define the immanent Trinity, the triune God in transcendence, the totality of YHWH? 139 Social Trinitarianism 150 Issue of Significance 150 The Significance Necessary to be Social 153 The Unavoidable Conflict for Social Trinitarianism 156 The Relational Outcome of the Inter-person-al Trinity 158 Reciprocating Contextualization with the Trinity 163
Ch 7 The Essential Reality of Uncommon Orthodoxy......167 Uncommon Trinitarianism Integrally Person-al and Inter-person-al 169 Palatable Orthodoxy, Assimilated Sin and Theological Anthropology 175 The Uncommon Intimate Whole of Uncommon Orthodoxy 182
Ch 8 The Likeness of Persons and Relationships.....................193 Distinguishing the Likeness of the Trinity 193 Persons in Uncommon Likeness 198 Relationships in Uncommon Likeness 207 Making Whole the Likeness from Modern and Postmodern Narratives 213
Ch 9 The Church of Likeness.........................................................217 The Church in Likeness of the Temple 218 The Reciprocal Likeness of Covenant Relationship 219 The Trinitarian Likeness in Uncommon Wholeness 222 The Church in Uncommon Likeness 226 The Priorities of the Intimate Equalizer 229 The Scope of the Intimate Equalizer 230 The Depth of the Intimate Equalizer 231 Further Distinguishing the Church’s Uncommon Wholeness 233 Comparative Relations, Power Relations, or Whole-ly Relationships 236 The Unlikely New, Uncommon, Whole Relational Order of the Church 242 The Church Called and Sent to be Uncommon 246
Ch 10 The Trinitarian Key for the Whole of Life.......................249 Distinguishing the Issue 250 The Trinitarian Key to Wholeness Emerges 251 Post-Ascension Wholeness in Trinitarian Theology and Practice 253 The Genius of the Spirit 255 The Face of the Whole-ly Trinity Person-al and Inter-person-al 256 Taking For Granted What Is Essential 258
Scripture Index (Primary Source).......................................................261
Bibliography (Secondary Source)......................................................264
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