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 Trinitätslehr...

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