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(p.369) Index
(p.369) Index
Abelard, Peter, 118–119, 120, 121, 122;
atonement, 118;
disappointment over satisfaction model, 119;
rejection of ransom theory, 119;
doctrine of salvation, 119;
sanctification and its outworking, 120;
soteriology and self-improvement, 119;
view of the atonement different than Anselm, 118
Anselm of Canterbury, 4, 116–117, 121, 122, 124–142, 169;
authority, 136–137;
devil, 133–135;
divine-human relationship, 118;
filioque clause, 129;
human depravity, 117;
influence, 137–139;
obedience, 136;
post-lapsarian, 129;
rejection of ransom theory, 116;
Scripture, 129–131;
sin, 131–133;
traducianism, 129;
Trinity, 128;
Aquinas, Thomas, 4, 119–120, 121, 122, 143–159, 183, 192, 228, 336, 345;
Christ’s work of mediation between God and humanity, 151–154;
Council of Lyons, 144;
deification and merit, 147–150;
effects of Christ’s Passion, 144;
free will and its role, 147;
justification as ongoing process, 120;
justification as process of conversion, 147;
love of God, 120;
Paschal mystery and primary events of salvation, 151;
salvation and human cooperation, 153;
salvation and the work of Christ’s resurrection, 153;
sin and grace, 120;
source of salvation in Christ, 150–154;
Summa Contra Gentiles, 144;
Summa Theologiae, 144;
two types of justice, 145–146
Aristotle, 103
Arminian, 253
Athanasius, 3, 4, 12, 13, 18, 19, 76, 125, 134;
active reception, 79;
Arians, 76;
Christology, 87;
Christ’s death as sacrificial offering, 84;
Council of Nicaea, 76;
creation, 77–79;
descending of the Word, 84;
Discourses, 76;
divine dilemma; 82–85;
divine descent, 82;
first cause, 84;
full divinity of the Son, 85;
grace, 79;
Irenaeus, 77;
ongoing spiritual conflict, 81;
partitive exegesis, 86;
perfection of the divine work, 89;
right objective, 81;
role of Holy Spirit in salvific plan, 87;
Scripture, 77;
sin and its consequences, 80–81;
union with God through the Son of God, 85–89
Augustine, 3, 13, 15, 19, 59, 116, 125, 134, 182, 183, 189, 196, 204, 210, 211, 215, 228, 264, 294;
Christology, 68;
The City of God, 59;
Council of Chalcedon, 68;
De doctrina Christiana, 60;
divine healing, 65–68;
effect of salvation, 71;
humanity’s need of salvation, 60;
incorporation of humans into Christ’s body, 61;
legacy of pride, 62;
The Literal Interpretation of Genesis, 60;
moral example of Christ, 70;
nature of God’s grace, 60;
second emptying, 72;
theology of sin and grace, 216–217;
transformation of the saved, 71–73;
unification of natures, 69;
whole Christ, 71
Balthasar, Hans Urs van, 5, 6, 124, 257, 304, 318, 322–324;
“autonomy” as false freedom, 325;
anonymous Christian, 338;
atonement, 327–333,
four areas of agreement with Rahner, 329;
Christian life, 333–336;
Christ’s suffering at human hands, 331;
Communio, 319;
distaste for propositionalism, 322;
co-redeemers through relationship with Christ, 335;
divine abandonment, 333;
doctrine of justification, 333;
doctrine of sanctification, 333;
Eastern Christian emphasis on the atonement, 330;
forgiveness in Christ, 333;
God-forsakenness, 331;
God’s glory and salvific effect, 337–338;
humans as apex of creation, 336;
intersubjective encounters, 323;
life after death as surpassing fulfillment of human race, 337;
love of God versus love of neighbor, 336;
Mary’s archetypal faith, 335–336;
mystical union, 331;
neoscholasticism, 322;
original sin and acceptance of Church’s position, 326;
personal relationship with Jesus of the faithful, 335;
principle of divine immutability, 332;
reconciliation, 337;
self-transcendent dynamism, 322;
sin, 324–326;
solidarity in suffering of the Son, 337;
supernatural existential, 322;
Theological Aesthetics, 319
Barth, Karl, 5, 6, 124, 256, 300–317, 339;
atonement, 312;
Christian Life, 311;
creation and redemption as two points of one ellipse, 302;
doctrine of revelation, 301;
election and the God of salvation:
Gospel as nature of election, 306;
life of faith and the scope of salvation, 311–314;
otherness of God, 301;
predestination, 306;
Romerbrief, 300;
self-election of Jesus Christ, 302;
soteriological existentialism, 303;
soteriological objectivism, 312;
Basil of Caesarea, 4, 13, 18, 95, 98–102;
Against Eunomius, 98;
and Apollinarius, 100;
and baptism, 101;
and healing, 100;
and Pelagianism, 102;
contrasts of
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Christ’s birth, 100;
economic text, 98;
Homily on Humility, 101;
immanent and economic Trinities, 98;
interchangeability of humanity and flesh, 99;
mode of theology, 98;
subsistence before the ages, 98;
two perspectives on the Son of God, 98
Bernard of Clairvaux, 216
Calvin, John, 4, 5, 186, 187, 188, 208, 263, 264;
atonement, 221;
baptism and Calvin’s theology, 210;
departs from Augustine on justification, 217;
double grace and the Christian life, 217–219;
divine nature, 221;
exegetical theologian, 209;
expansion of theme through biblical exegesis, 212–216;
inseparability of justification and sanctification, 215;
mystical union, 220;
Osiander controversy, 219–221;
prayer and Spirit activation, 217;
sacrifice of praise, 218;
shared view with Luther, Melanchthon on doctrine of justification, 212;
Trinitarian, 209;
union with Christ in Calvin’s early work, 210–211;
union with Christ and Calvin’s use of the church fathers, 216–217;
view of Mass, 218;
work of the Holy Spirit, 220
Cappadocians, 3, 4, 19, 95–112, 106, 110;
and Apollinarianism, 96;
baptism, 110;
Cappadocian Fathers, 95;
Christological dogma, 97;
doctrinal polemic, 110;
mystery of salvation, 96;
salvation and Christ’s humanity, 97;
salvation as the overcoming of death, 96;
Catholic Reform (a.k.a., Catholic Counter-Reformation), 4, 5, 187–188; 225–247;
contesting the Reformation, 229–231;
developing doctrine, 228–229;
divine grace, 229;
Erasmus, 229;
forensic justification, 230;
fundamental matters, 234–236;
hierarchy, 226;
imputed justice error, 233;
Jansenism, 243;
Jesuit order, 225;
justification and Catholic doctrine, 232–234;
justification and the sacraments, 238–241;
limited atonement, 236;
mediation, 226;
nominalism, 228;
salvation and justification as processes, 233;
scripture, 226;
Second Justification, 231;
voluntarism, 228;
Christology, 19
Christus Victor, 2
Clement of Rome, 23
Cyril of Alexandria, 216
deificatio, 19
Exodus 3:14, 171
Ezra 9:13–14, 263
First Thessalonians 4:1–7, 28
fundamentalism, 256
Genesis 1, 337;
1:26, 55;
1:26–27, 43;
1:27, 62;
1:31, 62;
2:7, 49;
3:17, 263;
4:7, 263;
45:5, 8, 44
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4, 14, 16, 17, 19, 95, 110, 125, 134;
Apollinarian controversy, 104;
autobiographical Christology, 102;
deifying humanity, 104;
exchange, 103;
sacrament of baptism, 104;
Tree of Knowledge as contemplation, 103
Gregory of Nyssa, 4, 19, 95, 96, 133;
Catechetical Oration, 107;
Christology, 109;
divine nature, 107;
doctrine of perpetual progress, 109;
Eunomius, 16;
God’s universal providence, 107;
humanity’s original state as perfection, 105;
human nature, 107;
incarnation, 107;
like by like, 108;
Logos and deception, 107;
On Virginity, 105;
On the Making of Humanity, 105;
paschal transformation, 107;
three themes about the eschaton, 109;
universal salvation, 109;
vision of salvation, 108
Gutiérrez, Gustavo, 5, 6, 258, 344–362;
Christological mysteries, 354–355;
Church as sacrament of liberation, 351–354;
“distinction of planes,” 353;
“ecclesiastical narcissism,” 352;
efficacy of human action, 348;
“irruption of the poor,” 359;
Jesus of liberation, Christ of solidarity, 354–356;
Latin America, 345;
liberation from sin, 351;
patristic theology, 356;
“political Augustinianism, 352;
socioeconomic, 350;
salvific will of God, 355;
three levels of meaning in liberation, 350–351;
three meanings of poverty, 357–359;
three models of soteriology, 352;
unity in history, 348;
universal call of humanity, 348;
“utopian-historical,” 350
Holcomb, Justin S., 363
Irenaeus, 3, 13, 15, 16, 41, 115, 134;
baptism as regeneration, 53;
beginning with Christ, the Savior, 41–45;
Christ is first human, 51–55;
Christ first shows life of God in human form, 43;
Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, 41;
finding of salvation, 51;
gospel as recapitulation of Scripture through the cross, 42;
humanity subject to mortality, 52;
inheritance, 48;
pre-exist, 45;
sign of Jonah, 49–51;
task of theology, 44;
Job 36:5, 263
Julian of Norwich, 4, 120–123, 160–177;
atonement, 164;
be-closed, 169;
beholding and seeing, 162–163;
bliss, 169;
Christogenesis, 167;
Christophany, 163;
illness experience, 160;
knowledge that leads to love of God, 122;
mysticism, 121;
oneing through joy, 169–172;
oneing through love, 167–169;
prayer and beseeking, 173;
revelations of God, 122;
Revelation of Love, 160;
showings, 162;
three beholdings, 162;
three revelations of the crucified Christ, 164–172;
late medieval soteriologies, 182
Liberalism, modern, 256
Luther, Martin, 4, 5, 29, 182, 187, 188, 191–207, 210, 216, 251, 253;
Crucial Period of 1514–1520, 194;
distinction with regard to perspicuity, 201;
divine grace, 184;
divine will, 193;
error with Erasmus, 201;
human will, 201;
humility and development of, 195–204;
imputation, 200;
Large Catechism, 202;
Ninety Five Theses Against Indulgences, 196;
pactum idea, 193;
Small Catechism, 202;
theology of human impotence, 200;
theology of sin and grace, 211;
theses for debating theological and philosophical topics, 196;
transubstantiation, 199;
sanctification, 185;
union with Christ, 211;
via moderna, 192;
whole Christ, 199;
will of God, 201;
wonderful exchange between Christian and Christ, 184
Matthew 5:17, 28;
5:20, 30;
5:44–45, 25;
7:24, 28;
11:29, 26;
20:28, 115;
22:9, 263;
24:13, 17;
25:1–12, 27
Moral Transformation, 2
Origen, 3, 13, 14, 16, 22, 65, 108, 115;
adoption, 31;
Commentary on Romans, 17;
conversion in three stages, 29;
divine-human cooperation, 35;
faith and works, 28–32;
final salvation, 25;
grace of Christ, 25;
Hexapla, 22;
moral transformation, 35;
reconciliation, 31;
salvation, 33–37;
theory of original sin, 24;
two justifications, 29;
two kinds of faith, 29;
unity and synthesis, 29;
universal reconciliation, 32–33;
work of the Incarnate Word, 24;
works of the law, 33–37
Penal Substitution, 2
Platonism, 24
Rahner, Karl, 5, 6, 257, 318, 320–322, 346, 355;
anonymous Christian, 338–339;
atonement, 327–333,
four areas of agreement with Balthasar, 329;
baptized Christian, 339;
Christian life, 333–336;
divine immutability, 332;
doctrine of justification, 333;
doctrine of sanctification, 333;
Eucharist and other sacraments, 334;
forgiveness in Christ, 333;
Foundations of Christian Faith, 318;
God-forsakenness, 328;
humans as apex of creation, 336;
life after death as surpassing fulfillment of human race, 337;
nature of poverty, 356;
personal relationship with Jesus of the faithful, 335;
pre-apprehension, 321;
preferential option for the poor, 356;
“quasi-sacramental” event of Jesus, 239;
reconciliation, 337;
Resurrection, 328;
salvific will of God, 328;
self-delusion, 325;
sin, 324–326;
Theological Investigations, 318;
view of death, 328
Romans 1:17, 196;
2:6–10, 28;
3:6, 67;
3:9–18, 24;
3:28, 33;
4:5, 147;
4:6–8, 30;
4:7–8, 29;
6:3, 53;
8:2, 33;
8:17, 149;
9:13, 66;
10:9–10, 36;
11:6, 33;
14:12, 28;
14:15, 263
Salvation, 181, 252, 258, 259;
and faith through repentance, 15–16;
as a line, 16–18;
as demonstration of God’s omnipotence, 14–15;
as divinization, 18;
as sacramental process, 187–188;
by grace, 189;
fulfilled through baptism, 16;
of exchange, 19;
role in modern theology, 259;
salvific mission of Jesus, 181
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 5, 6, 253, 281–299;
blessedness, 6;
Christology, 293;
Christ’s and the corporate life of blessedness, 289–290;
Christ’s person and work, 291–296;
consciousness of grace, 298;
conversion, 296–297;
creation and sin for redemption, 290–291;
doctrine of regeneration, 296;
Fall of humanity, 288;
Father of Modern Liberal Theology, 282;
incarnation of Christ, 293;
individual’s experience of Christ’s redemption, 296;
justification, 297;
liberal Enlightenment, 282;
reconciliation, 284;
religious consciousness, 283;
repentance and faith, 296;
sin and salvation, 283–285;
sin in light of redemption, 285;
two distinct groups of actual sin, 289;
unclouded blessedness, 295
Second Chronicles 15:1–2, 263
Synod of Dordt, 252
Titus 1:3, 83
Wesley, John, 5, 251, 261–280;
baptism and new birth, 270;
Calvinist soteriology and differences, 263;
divine justice, 264;
doctrine of assurance, 274;
doctrine of sanctification, 262;
doctrine of unconditional election, 262;
entire sanctification, 273;
evangelism and works of mercy and justice, 275;
genuine Christians, 270;
implications of the Gospel and the hope of glory, 275–277;
Methodist Articles of Religion, 267;
perseverance and assurance in the Christian life, 273–275;
predestination and election, 262–266,
against Reformed, 265;
regeneration and sanctification, 268–273;
regeneration as gate into process of sanctification, 272;
theological framework of Wesley’s soteriology, 262;
theology, 253;
two senses of election, 265;
Zinzendorf and Wesley’s rejection of instantaneous perfection, 270
Wisdom of Solomon, 80
