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Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity

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This book by Professor Paul Molnar, is a real gem. The subject matter is very deep and difficult, yet he makes it understandable to the interested laymen. Throughout he show where a lot of contemporary Theologians go off track in their thinking on the Christian Revelation of the Incarnation and its Trinitarian implications. He documents the influence of "Relational" views of God's being and how Hegelian being constituted through historical process, trumps the ontological priority of God's being a Self reliant reality, outside of the World/Creation. God would have still been the Triune God, even if God had not Created the Universe. This ties in with Karl Barth's emphasis on God's Freedom. The World does not constitute God's being. God is free in Relation to the Created World. This is just some of what this book touches upon. It helped me a lot and pointed out a lot of what I had sensed for myself, thats wrong in much current Christological writing.

Cryptic, dogmatic and polluted with long-winded footnotes. This is not a good book of theology by any standard. It displays an alarming single-mindedness (centering around the thinking of Karl Barth); blatantly ignoring valid points of the opposing views and, in the end, teaching nothing.

***STAY AWAY***