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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Trinity: Calvin's Theological Paradigm for God's Economic Relationship With Humanity | |
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| Reassessing Calvin's Understanding of the Divine-Human Relationship | |
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| The Relationship of God and Humanity in Theological Context | |
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| Calvin's View: Dialectical or Trinitarian? | |
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| The Redemptive Context of Calvin's Trinitarian Paradigm for Understanding the Divine-Human Relationship | |
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| The Impact of Calvin's Trinitarian Controversies upon the Economic-Trinitarian Emphasis of His Theology | |
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| The 1536 Institutes: The Trinitarian Pattern of the Economy of Redemption | |
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| Calvin's Trinitarian Controversies: The Economy of Redemption as the Focus of Calvin's Doctrine of the Trinity | |
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| Biblical and Catholic Priorities in Calvin's Trinitarian Paradigm for the Divine-Human Relationship | |
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| The Role of Calvin's Exegetical Priorities in His Broadening of Traditional Western Approaches to Trinitarian Doctrine | |
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| Nicene Trinitarian Doctrine within Biblical Limits | |
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| Calvin, the Trinity, and Nicene Orthodoxy | |
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| Calvin, the Divine Economy of Redemption, and Trinitarian Catholicity | |
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| The Trinitarian Basis, Pattern, and Dynamic of the Divine-Human Relationship | |
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| Revelation: the Trinity as the Basis of God's Relationship with Humanity | |
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| The Father as Source and "Subject" in Divine Revelation | |
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| Trinitarian Divine Self-Disclosure as the Basis of the Knowledge of God | |
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| Trinitarian Revelation via Word and Spirit as the Means to Knowledge of God | |
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| God's Trinitarian Self-Revelation, the Knowledge of God, and the Basis of the Divine-Human Relationship | |
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| Redemption: the Trinity as the Pattern of God's Relationship with Humanity | |
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| The Son as the Mediator of Divine Redemption | |
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| The Trinitarian Pattern of God's Redemptive Restoration of the Divine Image in Christ | |
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| Trinitarian Redemption as the Pattern of the Divine-Human Relationship | |
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| Human Response: the Trinity as the Dynamic of God's Relationship with Humanity | |
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| The Trinity and the Relationship of Divine and Human Action | |
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| The Spirit as the Divine Dynamic of Human Response in Christ | |
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| The Triune God as the Dynamic of Faithful Human Response | |
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| Renewed Human Response: the Trinity as the Dynamic of the Divine-Human Relationship | |
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| The Trinity and the Visibility of Grace: Contextuality, Comprehensiveness, and Coherence in Calvin's Trinitarian Vision | |
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| Church, Trinity, and Contextuality | |
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| The Church as Corporeal Matrix of the Divine-Human Relationship | |
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| Election, the Trinity, and the Church's Contextuality | |
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| The Visible Church as the Worshiping Church | |
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| The Visibility of Grace: Trinity, Church, and Sacrament | |
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| Baptism, Trinity, and Comprehensiveness | |
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| The Trinity and Christian Baptism | |
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| Trinitarian Baptism and the Visibility of Grace | |
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| Baptism, Catechesis, and the Christian Life | |
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| Trinitarian Baptism as a Reflection of the Comprehensiveness of Divine Grace in Christian Belief, Worship, and Practice | |
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| Eucharist, Trinity, and Coherence | |
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| Trinitarian Communion with Christ as the Focus of the Eucharist | |
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| The Visibility and Communication of Trinitarian Grace in the Eucharist | |
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| Trinitarian Communion with Christ as the Coherence of the Divine-Human Relationship | |
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| Eucharistic Communion as a Reflection of the Trinitarian Coherence of the Divine-Human Relationship | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Importance for Calvin Studies | |
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| Importance for the Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Trinity | |
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| Importance for the Ongoing Constructive Task of Christian Theology | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |