The Incarnation of the Eternal Son: Fitting, not Necessary. Issue 4 (November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hinlicky, Paul R.
• Is Part Of: Pro ecclesia. Volume 31:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 542
• Page End: 558
• Publication Date: 2022-11
• Subjects: Barth wars -- Paul Molnar -- substance ontology -- dispositional ontology -- divine mutability -- Logos asarkos -- subordinationism -- Arianism -- divine hypostasis; Theology -- Periodicals; Doctrines -- History -- Periodicals; 230.005
• DOI: 10.1177/10638512221122281
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1063-8512

Abstract

In this contribution the author responds to Bruce Marshall's Thomist critique of Barth's theology, at the cost of a certain revision of Barth's mature exploration of the "being-for-others" of the eternal Son in CD IV/1. Affirming the eternity of the Son, the Logos asarkos and thus of the immanent Trinity, socially modeled, the article argues that this revision follows the cutting-edge of Barth's thought and provides a dispositional ontology which both allows for a properly divine mutability in the incarnation and at the same time preserves the freedom of reconciling grace.