God’s Shining Forth by Hay Andrew R.;Davidson Ivor J.;

Author:Hay, Andrew R.;Davidson, Ivor J.; [Hay, Andrew R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781532605246
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2017-05-12T07:00:00+00:00

239. This “divine qualification” for the creature in the work of election is highlighted by Calvin: although God’s will is “summa causa” and is “hidden with him,” nevertheless his “righteousness and his rule” are inseparable by the act of his loving election. See Calvin’s admittedly scathing letter in Calumniae nebulonis de occulta Providentia Dei cum responsione (CO 9:288); “A Brief Reply,” in Theological Treatises, 335.

240. See David Brown’s insistence that “human inventiveness” allows for the divine presence to manifest itself by transcending human “materials in a more fundamental way” in his “Darkness and Light,” esp. 181. We might offer Barth’s image as a reply: the creaturely “circumference” of the “illuminating center” of God’s reconciling action in Jesus Christ is never this center but always and ever remains the circumference of this illuminating presence and work (cf. CD IV.3.1:278–9; KD IV.3:321–2). See our thoughts in the forthcoming sub-section.

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