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Appearances can be deceiving. While adopting the title and form of Friedrich Schleiermacher's great work, The Christian Faith, Prof. Gunton employs a different method and arrives at very different conclusions from his predecessor. As in the case of Schleiermacher, Gunton follows the three divisions of the creed: God the Father, Maker of heaven and earth, Jesus Christ His Son, the Savior, and God the Spirit, who gives life and guides the Church. In the conclusion to the entire enterprise, he, too, sets forth his treatment of the doctrine of God, taking into account the insights gleaned along the way. By his own admission, Schleiermacher's doctrine of God is Sabellian. ( 176) Thus, what we see is not what we get. The God who appears to us as Father, Son and Spirit is not triune, neither in history nor in eternity. In contrast, Gunton maintains that God is indeed triune, and that the God revealed in history is to serve as our basis for knowledge of the eternal God. Gunton affirms, then, a close connection between the immanent and economic Trinities, without undermining the necessary distinction. Following Irenaeus, Gunton argues that the fundamental difference between his and Schleier

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Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Published
2002
Language
DE
Field
Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)