CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction—Fred Sanders and Scott R. Swain

PART I:

BIBLICAL REASONING

1. THE RADIANCE OF THE FATHER’S GLORY: Eternal Generation, the Divine Names, and Biblical Interpretation

Scott R. Swain

2. THE ROLE OF PROVERBS 8: Eternal Generation and Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

Matthew Y. Emerson

3. ETERNAL GENERATION AND THE OLD TESTAMENT: Micah 5:2 as a Test Case

Mark S. Gignilliat

4. JOHN 5:26: Crux Interpretum for Eternal Generation

D. A. Carson

5. A LEXICAL DEFENSE OF THE JOHANNINE “ONLY BEGOTTEN”

Charles Lee Irons

6. HEBREWS 1 AND THE SON BEGOTTEN “TODAY”

Madison N. Pierce

7. Generatio, Processio Verbi, Donum Nominis: Mapping the Vocabulary of Eternal Generation

R. Kendall Soulen

PART II:

HISTORICAL WITNESSES

8. AT THE ORIGINS OF ETERNAL GENERATION: Scriptural Foundations and Theological Purpose in Origen of Alexandria

Lewis Ayres

9. ETERNAL GENERATION IN THE TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY OF AUGUSTINE

Keith E. Johnson

10. POST-REFORMATION TRINITARIAN PERSPECTIVES

Chad Van Dixhoorn

11. JONATHAN EDWARDS AND ETERNAL GENERATION

Christina N. Larsen

12. ETERNAL GENERATION AFTER BARTH

Michael Allen

PART III:

CONTEMPORARY STATEMENTS

13. PHILOSOPHICAL MODELS OF ETERNAL GENERATION

Mark Makin

14. ETERNAL GENERATION AND SOTERIOLOGY

Fred Sanders

15. ETERNAL GENERATION: Pro-Nicene Pattern, Dogmatic Function, and Created Effects

Josh Malone

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Author Index