Abraham, 34, 86, 88, 90, 108–9, 128, 140, 263
Acontius, Jacobus, 196–98
Adam, 38, 39, 41, 158, 280–82, 285
Adonai, 75
adoption, 25, 87, 123, 261, 263, 265–66, 281, 282–84
adoptionism (or, adoptionist Christology), 49, 117, 130
Aelius Herodianus, 112
Agamemnon, 109
Alexander, 50
Anchor Bible commentary, 76–77
angels, 40, 42, 86, 97, 120, 121, 123, 124–25, 126, 127, 220, 283
anti-Nicenes, 45, 49–52, 55, 65, 174
anti-Trinitarians (or, anti-Trinitarianism), 181–83, 195
Aquila of Sinope, 108
Apollonius Dyscolus, 112
Apostles’ Creed, 201
Arianism (or, the Arian heresy), 59, 87, 100, 102–3, 188
Arminianism, 195
Articles of Religion, 194. See Irish
Articles; Thirty-Nine Articles
aseity, 56, 171, 185, 186–87, 205, 230, 243, 245, 246, 249–50, 251–53, 257, 259
Athanasian Creed, 201
autotheos, 186, 189, 191, 198, 222
begetting, discontinuity and continuity
between human and divine, 116
biblical warrant, 20, 56, 59, 61–62, 64–66, 167, 243
Byzantine text-type. See Majority Text
causation, 248–49, 250, 253, 246
Chalcedonian Definition, 201
Charles I, 189
Christology, 36, 54, 81, 103, 117, 123, 130, 167, 186, 188, 228–32, 234–39, 268, 278, 280
church fathers, 21, 30, 67, 73, 91, 98, 99–100, 106, 116, 185, 186, 194, 239, 265
Codex Vercellensis, 100
common nouns for God, 134, 135–37, 144–45
communicatio essentiae, 146
Council of Constantinople. See First
Council of Constantinople;
Third Council of Constantinople
created effects, 25, 273, 278, 280, 282, 285
creating, relation of fathering to, 38 creation, 25, 29, 30, 39, 40, 49, 50, 56, 57, 58, 60–63, 74, 76, 83, 85, 91, 103, 111, 119, 136–37, 139, 140, 150, 151, 154, 159–60, 164, 168, 173, 177, 178, 191, 192, 223, 230, 245, 248, 252, 255, 256, 268, 272, 274, 278–85
a divine gift and triune movement, 278–80
from creation to new, 280–82
Creed of Constantinople. See Nicene Creed
Creed of Nicaea (325), 271–72
dependence, 81, 83–86, 93–96, 174, 214, 237, 244, 246–59
divine essence. See essence
divine names (or, the Divine Name), 20, 23, 31–36, 42–43, 52–53, 55, 63, 66, 126, 134, 138–44, 272, 273
how the persons of the Trinity bear the, 141
the ontological basis of the, 35
two broad categories of, 36–37
divine nature, 82
divine simplicity, 166, 185, 221, 234, 274
donum nominis, 133, 138–42, 145, 146
draft catechism (1646), 202–3
Durandus of Sancto Porciano, 187
economic Trinity, 63, 86, 93, 94, 228
egalitarian/complementarian debate, 92–93
election, 226, 227, 229–30, 232, 235
“equality” (Father and Son), 143–44, 174
essence, 24, 46, 50, 52, 55, 60, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 82, 96, 98, 103, 119, 138–39, 142–43, 144, 146, 165, 166, 169, 185, 186–87, 189, 191–94, 195, 196, 197, 199, 200, 204, 206, 207, 209, 210, 211, 221, 232, 244, 248, 249, 250, 253–59, 261, 267, 269, 275–76
essential communication, 138–39, 142–43
essential unity, 25, 274–75, 278
ESV (English StandardVersion), 101, 113, 114–15, 175
eternal begetting 43–44, 61, 116, 118, 139, 164, 166, 172, 178–79, 276, 282, 283
eternal functional subordination (EFS), 62–63, 65, 66, 93, 276
eternal grant, 43, 82, 85, 96, 170
eternal procession, 29, 46, 52, 98, 144, 171, 175, 223, 253, 259, 261, 277
Eusebius of Nicomedia, 45, 49, 51
evangelical historicism, 227, 229, 230
evangelicalism, 228
exinanition, 266
faith of Christ, 236–39
fallacy of the excluded middle, 174
family resemblances, 33, 35–36, 37, 40–41
Fatherhood, ancient church’s conception of, 258–59
fathering, 38–39
Father of lights, 29, 38–39, 41, 268
father–son relationships, three analogous patterns of, 37–42
Creator to creature, 38–39
creature to creature, 37–38
divine Father to divine Son, 40–42
Featley, Daniel, 189–94
filiation, 17, 37, 94, 236, 238, 267, 268, 273, 277, 280, 285
“firstborn,” 125–26, 137, 151, 152, 255, 281, 282, 282
First Council of Constantinople (381), 100–101, 102, 274
First Council of Nicaea (325), 100, 118, 138, 274
Fourth Lateran Council, 187
from-another rule, 55, 56, 168, 169, 171, 173, 175
fundamentalism, 228
Gataker, Thomas, 183–84
generatio, 132, 133, 139, 140, 145, 146
gennaō (beget), 136, 272–73, 276
God–Adam relation, 38
Goodwin, Thomas, 192
Gospel of John, name-theology of the, 139–40
grammar, a theological account of, 77–78
Greek–English Lexicon, A. See LSJ
grounding skeptics, 253
Hammond, Henry, 195
Heidelberg Catechism, 262, 266, 283
High Priestly Prayer. See “Prayer of the Divine Name”
homoousios, 47, 55, 65, 116, 119, 138–39
Hugh of St.Victor, 68
hypostasis, 67, 144, 152, 161, 244, 249, 276
image of God, 42, 160, 161, 219, 255, 280
“image of the invisible God” (Col. 1:17), 137, 151, 157–58, 255
incarnation, 29, 45, 48, 51, 54, 55, 56, 63, 64, 73, 77, 93, 96, 151, 175, 195, 206, 230, 231, 232, 233–36, 261, 276, 280–82, 283
inseparable operation, 174, 177, 178, 224
Irish Articles (of 1615), 193, 200, 203, 207
kenosis, 266
King JamesVersion (and “only begotten”), 100
kinship term(s), 133, 134, 135, 137, 143, 145
kinship nouns in Origen and Athanasius, 137–38
Liddell and Scott. See LSJ
“life in himself,” 42, 79–82, 85, 92, 96, 165, 168–71, 179, 197, 200, 274, 278, 285
light(s), 29–30, 38–42, 97, 118, 119, 133, 134, 137, 145, 155, 159, 164, 166, 173, 183, 185, 212, 268, 270, 271, 274
“likeness” of God, 39
literal exposition, three levels of, 68
Logos, 50, 51, 52, 54–55, 56, 58, 60, 61–62, 64, 70, 73, 82, 123, 154, 234, 239, 285
Logos theologians, 136–37
LSJ (Liddell and Scott), 103–4, 111, 112
Manichaeism, 49
Mediator (Christ as), 170, 193, 203, 282
modalism, 46, 63, 163, 178, 198
modes of subsistence, 98, 145–46
Molnar, Paul, 228–28
Monobazus, king of Adiabene, 90, 108
monogenēs, 22, 59, 89, 99–116, 264
etymology of, 103–5
examples of the scientific usage of, 111
history of interpretation of, 99–10
lexical argument for “only begotten,” 105–12
technical uses, 112
three nonliteral extensions, 108–12
various Bible translations’ rendering, 101
monothelite/dyothelite controversy, 96
monothelitism, 96
natural theology, 232
Nestle-Aland, 113
NIV (New InternationalVersion), 100, 114
Nicene controversy, 49–56
Nicene Creed (381, Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed), 62, 118, 135, 138–39, 164, 183, 185–86, 187, 190, 268, 271, 275
NIDOTTE (New International Dictionary of OldTestament Theology and Exegesis), 76
NovumTestamentum Graece. See Nestle-Aland
obedience of the Son, 95–96, 215, 232–33, 235, 236, 238, 277
oikonomia, 51, 226, 231, 235, 236, 238, 239
‘olam, 75–76
“only begotten.” See chapter 10, (98–116). See also 22, 59, 87–90, 118, 129, 143, 151, 153, 155, 157–58, 164, 171, 199, 202–3, 210, 262, 264, 266, 270, 272, 273, 274, 276, 283
use by ecclesiastical writers (table), 99–100
ontological subordination, 46, 94, 185, 203
Paraklētos, 95. See eternal procession
paroimia, 53
paternity, 37, 94, 267, 273, 277, 285
Paul of Samosata, 49
perichoresis (co-inherence), 198
personal distinction, 275–76
personal properties among the persons of the Trinity, 94
Philoxenus, 112
phoenix (as an example of monogenēs), 111
pistis christou, 236–37
predestination, 227
Presbyterianism, 228
principium, 186–87, 203, 256, 259
procession(s), 23, 29, 46, 52, 72–74, 78, 87, 94, 95, 98, 132, 139, 144–45, 171, 175, 176, 178, 185, 202, 203, 205, 212, 212–17, 219, 222, 223, 227, 236, 238, 248, 253, 259, 261, 266, 267, 270, 273, 277–80
processio verbi, 132–33, 139, 140, 141
eternal generation as, 136–37, 144–45
production (or, productionem) of divine essence, 191–92, 196, 199
pro-Nicene
theological reasoning, 271–73
understanding of the temporal obedience of the Son, 277
use of the term, 100–101
pro-Nicenes, 55, 65, 103, 164, 275, 277
prosopological exegesis, 54, 120, 123
providence, 40, 164, 168, 177, 280
qedem, 76
Qumran, Micah fragment at, 75
Racovian Catechism, 69–70
“radiance” of God’s glory, the Son as the, 29, 40, 90–91, 119, 155, 159, 255, 273–74
“rationalistic reductionism,” 71, 72
“recapitulation,” 48
redemption, 74, 141, 164, 168, 177, 208, 212, 213, 214, 215–17, 218, 224, 231, 238, 278, 284, 285
relational order (taxis), 25, 274, 276–77, 279
RSV (Revised StandardVersion), 101
“rule of unity,” 278
Sarah (daughter of Raguel), 109
self-existence, 79–80, 82, 165, 170–71, 185, 243, 245, 246. See also aseity
Septuagint (LXX), 53, 60, 75, 106–8, 110, 125, 136
Similitudes of Enoch, 76
social Trinitarianism, 46, 65, 66
Socinianism, 69–70, 183, 196, 198
Socinians, 71, 193, 197, 198, 199, 200
“sons of God,” 125–26
sonship, 17, 18, 25, 86–87, 91–92, 100, 112, 114, 115, 121, 122–23, 126, 170, 184, 205–6, 262–63, 265–68, 273, 277, 280–84
soteriology, 25, 183, 238, 260–70
justifications for an appeal to, 263–65
three connecting themes for Trinitarian, 265–70
speculative theology, 68–69, 76
spiration, 37, 267, 277, 278, 285
Stoic tradition, 160
submission, 65, 86, 93, 94, 95, 276, 277
subordination, 46, 59, 62–66, 83, 93–94, 96, 174, 185, 190, 200, 202–3, 205, 212–17, 223
subordinationism, 18, 19, 46, 137, 185, 187, 195, 199, 243, 244–46, 257
subordinationism objection (to eternal generation), 245–46, 248, 249, 250, 251, 256, 257, 259
subsistence, 98, 145, 155, 157, 179, 197, 199–201, 214, 215, 244, 245, 277
substance (divine), 40–42, 48, 94. 98, 118, 119, 151, 159, 163, 165, 166, 176–77, 179, 187, 198, 201, 201–2, 203, 204–5, 206, 210, 270, 272, 274
Symmachus, 108
Synod of London. See Westminster Assembly
systematic theology, 19, 231, 232, 269
taxis, 63, 94, 95, 96, 178, 274, 276–77
Tetragrammaton, 134–35, 138, 139, 140, 142, 143. See alsoYHWH
Theodore of Mopsuestia, 72
theologia, 226, 231, 233–34, 235–36, 238, 239
theological reflection, the nature of, 47
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. See TLG
Third Council of Constantinople, 96
Thirty-Nine Articles, 190, 195, 201–2
Thomism, 239
TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae), 89, 99, 104, 106
Trinitarianism, 17, 21, 25, 46, 49, 65, 66, 145, 186, 209, 260, 264–66, 270
Trinity
common nouns for the persons of the, 134, 135–37, 144–45
doctrine of the (defined), 17
divine uniqueness of the persons of the, 141–42
personal properties among the persons of the, 94
tropos hyparxeos, 145–46
unintelligibility objection, 243, 244, 245, 246, 248, 249, 251, 256, 257, 259
United Presbyterian Church United States of America’s “Confession of 1967,” 237
unity, 25, 46, 52, 63, 65, 67, 98, 138, 140, 142, 145, 146, 158, 163, 176–77, 185, 198, 200, 201–5, 235, 269, 273, 274–75, 276, 278
of divine substance, 48, 94, 118, 163, 176–77, 201–2, 203, 204, 205, 206, 270
of the Scriptures, 33, 48, 49, 51, 64, 72
Unity, Equality, Connection (Trinity), 141, 142
Valentinians, 152
Vorlage, 53
Westminster Assembly, 24, 180–83, 189–92, 194–97, 201–5, 207
Westminster Confession of Faith, 201, 203
Westminster Larger Catechism, 203–4
Westminster Shorter Catechism, 202, 204–5
Wisdom (personified), 21, 42, 47–49, 52, 54–55, 57–62, 64, 66, 110, 129, 136, 140, 144–45, 151–55, 158–61, 171
word-concept fallacy, 21–22
words, the twofold potential of, 77
YHWH, 33, 122, 127, 134, 135, 138. See also Tetragrammaton
Zeus, 105