Table of Contents

Abbreviations vii

Introduction 1

1 Communication of Being Ad Intra: The Trinity as Origin, Medium, and End of the Divine Emanation and Remanation 5

2 Communication of Being Ad Extra: Trinitarian Creation 51

3 Trinitarian Action and Communication in Redemption and the Incarnation 97

4 Hypostatic Union: Participation of the Human Nature in the Divine Person of the Logos 143

5 Communication of Properties, Works, and Grace in the Person of Christ as Mediated by the Spirit 187

6 Uuio Cum Christo: The Foundation of All Communion and Communication 231

7 Self-Communication of the Holy Spirit as the Church's Participation in the Divine Nature 281

8 Conclusion of Salvation: Participation in God as the End without an End 329

Appendix 1

Appendix 2 The Doctrine of Autotheos in Calvin and the Reformed Tradition 357

Appendix 3 Doctrine of Appropriations as Modified by the Reformed-Puritan Tradition 361

Appendix 4 The Enhypostatou-Auhypostatou Dialectic 365

Appendix 5 Genus Maiestaticum 375

Appendix 6 God's Intrinsic and Declarative Glory in the Reformed-Puritan Tradition 387

Appendix 7 Divine Energeia in the Eastern and Western Traditions 389

Selected Bibliography 395

Index 435