The Christian System - Chapter 4
THE SON OF GOD.
I. "The holy progeny (or thing) which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." "Unto us a child is born; unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." "This is my Son, the beloved, in whom I delight." "This is my Son, the beloved, hear him." "No person has ascended into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven," or whose abode is in heaven. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son; the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." "No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son who is the bosom of the Father has declared him." "Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel." "Glorify thou me with thine ownself, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." "In him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead1 bodily," or substantially. "He is the first and the last." "All things were created by him and for him." "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made." "The word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory: the glory as of an only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."
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I. "The holy progeny (or thing) which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." "Unto us a child is born; unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." "This is my Son, the beloved, in whom I delight." "This is my Son, the beloved, hear him." "No person has ascended into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven," or whose abode is in heaven. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son; the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." "No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son who is the bosom of the Father has declared him." "Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel." "Glorify thou me with thine ownself, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." "In him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead1 bodily," or substantially. "He is the first and the last." "All things were created by him and for him." "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made." "The word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory: the glory as of an only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."
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posted by Ken | 1:36 PM
3 Comments:
How does this relate to the Nicene Creed's assertion that the Son was eternally begotten?
BOG
BOG,
I can't tell you. It appears that Campbell teaches that the Father Son relation didn't exist from the beginning. He specifically states that the "Son of God" is a temporal relation. So it seems he denies the eternal Sonship of Christ, a rejection of a Nicean trinitarianism.
Since, according to Campbell the relation, Father, Son and Holy Spirit has a specific starting point in history (the incarnation?) this has an impact on the procession of the Holy Spirit.
I'll definitely have to research the impact of such teaching.
How do you get that deduction?
AC relates the term "Son" to the role or relationship the second person of the "Trinity" to the history of salvation.
The "relationship" of "Son" began at the beginning of redemption (Incarnation).
The person who is called "Son" did not ontologically begin at that point however and AC makes this abundantly clear. To quote from p.10 of the CS,
"He (note the pronoun) that existed before the Universe, whose mysterious, sublime, and glorious designation was the WORD OF GOD. Before the Christian system [i.e. before time existed, before the history of redemption], before the RELATION of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit began to be, his rank in the divine nature was that of the WORD OF GOD . . .
"While, then, the phrase 'Son of God' denotes a temporal relation, the phrase 'the Word of God' denotes an eternal, unoriginated relation. There was A WORD OF GOD from eternity, but the Son of God began in the days of Augustus Caesar."
I do not think Athanasius would have much of a problem with this statement.
Shalom,
Bobby Valentine
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