Wrath Among the Perfections of God's Life

by Jeremy J. Wynne

Overview

Late-modern theology is marked by persistent and widespread uncertainty as to how the wrath of God can be taken up as a legitimate theme within dogmatics. Rather than engage the most fundamental task of clarifying the inner logic by which God's identity is revealed in scripture, privilege has been ceded either to cultural and textual criticism, to ostensibly self-evident moral sensibilities, or to the thematization of religious experience. The present work sets out to rectify this misstep. The result is a rigorous proposal for understanding wrath expressly within the doctrine of God, as a redemptive mode of divine righteousness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567488541
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/28/2010
Series:	T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology , #8
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dr Jeremy Wynne holds a doctorate in Systematic Theology from King's College, University of Aberdeen.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

1 A Systematic Approach Reconsidered 1

I Theological Approaches to the Topic of Wrath 2

II Renewed Interest in the Divine Perfections 9

III Purpose, Plan, and Limitations 11

Part 1

2 The Subject Matter of the Doctrine of the Divine Perfections: Content Impressing Form 17

I The Living God 18

II The Self-Named God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit 31

III The Eternal God 41

3 The Arrangement and Inner Logic of the Divine Perfections: Form Reflecting Content 61

I Efficiency and the Way of Intensification: Francis Turretin on the Reformed Scholastic Arrangement of the Attributes 64

II Beyond the Subjectivity of Morals and Doctrine: Friedrich Schleiermacher on the Attributes Which Relate to the Immediate Self-Consciousness 77

III An Overflowing Depth: Karl Barth on God's Love in Freedom 92

IV Modes of Divine Perfection 109

Part 2

4 The Lord's Vineyard and the Rule of His Generosity: Matthew 20.1-16 and Isaiah 5.1-7 119

I The Image of the Vineyard 120

II The Righteousness of God: Self-Identical in Every Mode 128

III The Living Parable 141

5 Wrath, Righteousness, and the Acquittal of the Guilty: Romans 3.21-26 and Exodus 34.6-7 147

I Sinners under God's Wrath 153

II The Gift of Jesus Christ: Wrath and the Exchange of Death for Life 165

III Acquittal of the Guilty 174

6 Publication of Salvation and Final Judgment: Revelation 14.14-20 and Amos 3.2 184

I The Righteous God, the Hope of the Persecuted 185

II Wrath, History, and the Divine Pedagogy 197

Bibliography 211

Index of Scripture References 224

Index of Names 229