How does John Calvin understand and depict the relationship of God with humanity? Until this study, the most influential readings of Calvin have tended to assume a dialectical divine-human opposition as fundamental to his thought. In this fresh consideration of Calvin's Christian vision his consistent and pervasive appeal to the Trinity in understanding the divine-human relationship is delineated and imaginatively rendered. Tracing the trinitarian theme in its many dimensions throughout the reformer's work, Philip Butin offers a revised look at the vital role of the Trinity in Calvin's thought, in the process recovering Calvin as a significant historical source for contemporary trinitarian theological reflection.
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- The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought (Oxford Companions) by Adrian Hastings on page 93
- What Pure Eyes Could See: Calvin's Doctrine of Faith in Its Exegetical Context (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) by Barbara Pitkin in Back Matter
- Way of Wisdom, The by J. I. Packer on page 326
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