Why heaven kissed earth : : the Christology of the Puritan Reformed Orthodox theologian Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680) / / Mark Jones.

• Superior document: Reformed historical theology ; v. 13
• Author: Jones, Mark, 1980-
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Reformed historical theology ; v. 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Hauptbeschreibung Mark Jones vertritt die These, dass die Christologie des berühmten englischen reformierten Theologen Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680) in dem trinitarischen Bund der Erlösung begründet, so Mark Jones. Ohne den allgemeineren Kontext der Bundestheologie ließe sich Goodwins Trinitätslehre und somit auch die Christologie aber nicht verstehen. Diese schließe sowohl Person als auch Werk Christi ein und setze nicht in der zeitlichen Dimension der Inkarnation ein, sondern reiche zurück in die Ewigkeit, als die Personen der Trinität einen Bund schlossen, um die gefallene Menschhei

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Preface; Introduction; 1. Status Quaestionis; 1.1.2 "Transmission and transformation"; 1.1.3 Printed Editions of Goodwin's Works (1861-66 or 1.1.4 Early Scholarship; 1.2 Trajectory of Argument; 1.2.2 Methodology; 1.2.3 Outline; 2. The Life of Goodwin in the Context of His Times; 2.2.1 Education and Conversion; 2.2.3 The Westminster Assembly; 2.2.4 The Interregnum; 2.2.5 The Restoration; 2.3 Puritan, Calvinist, or Reformed?; 3. Influences and Opponents; 3.2.1 Reformed Divines; 3.2.2 Early Church Fathers; 3.2.3 "The Schoolmen"

3.2.4 Pagan Philosophers3.3 Goodwin's Theology in Historical Context; 3.3.1 Anti-Papist; 3.3.3 Anti-Arminian; 4.2 A Covenant Theologian; 4.2.1 The Covenant of Works; 4.2.2 The Covenant of Grace; 4.3 Principles of Interpretation; 4.3.2 Analogia Fidei; 4.3.4 Typology; 4.3.5 Distinctio Sed Non Separatio; 4.3.6 The Spirit and Reason; 5. Knowledge of the Triune God; 5.2.1 One God, Three Persons; 5.3 Exegetical Considerations; 5.4 Essential Unity; 5.4.2 Union and Communion (circumincessio); 5.5 Personal Distinctions; 5.6 Special Questions; 5.6.2 God-of-himself (Autotheos); 5.6.3 Double Procession

6.1.1 Origins6.2 The Eternal Covenant of Redemption; 6.2.1 Reconciliation to the Father; 6.2.2 Eternal Salvation; 6.2.3 The Necessity of the Atonement; 6.2.4 The Appointment of the Son; 6.2.5 Christ's Acceptance of the Terms; 6.2.7 The Role of the Spirit; 6.2.8 Concluding the Covenant; 7.2 The Divine Son; 7.2.2 The Son of God; 7.2.3 The Necessity of Divinity; 7.3 Of Christ the Mediator; 7.3.2 Why the Mediator Should be a Man; 7.3.4 Communicatio Idiomatum; 7.3.5 Communicatio Operationum; 7.3.6 The Work of the Spirit on Christ; 8.2 Christ's Consent; 8.2.2 Christ's Renewal of Consent

8.3 "For he hath made him to be sin"8.3.1 Vicarious Mediation; 8.4 The Obedience of Christ for Justification; 8.4.2 The Whole Righteousness Imputed; 8.4.3 The Merit of Christ's Obedience; 8.4.4 Sufficiency and Efficiency; 8.5 Christus Victor; 8.5.1 Christ's Victory Over the Devil; 8.5.2 Genesis 3:15; 8.6 Christ Set Forth; 8.6.2 In His Ascension and Sitting at God's Right Hand; 8.6.3 In His Intercession; 9. The Lord of Glory; 9.2.1 The Image of the Invisible God; 9.2.2 Christ and the Decree; 9.2.3 The Glory Before the World Was; 9.2.4 The Highest Manifestation of Glory

9.2.5 One Universal Lord9.3 Mediatorial Glory; 9.3.1 Reward of the Spirit; 9.3.2 The Glory of His Bride; 9.3.3 Christ's Kingdom; 10. Conclusion: Cur Deus Homo?; 10.2 Goodwin's Contribution to Reformed Orthodoxy; 10.2.2 Goodwin's Christology; 10.2.3 Goodwin in Wider Perspective; 11. Appendix A: Justification from Eternity; 11.2 Goodwin on Eternal Justification; 11.2.3 Union with Christ; 11.2.4 Antinomianism?; Bibliography; Secondary Sources; Back Cover