Comments on: Calvin, Classical Trinitarianism, and the Aseity of the Son

By: Richard Chelvan

Richard Chelvan — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:08:20 +0000

I found this discussion very insightful and interesting and I will get the book. However, I don’t know if Brannon Ellis cites the May 2010 article by Benjamin W. Swinburnson, “John Calvin, Eternal Generation, and Communication of Essence: A Reexamination of His Views” in Kerux. This article anticipates some of what I hear Oliphint discuss in his rather enthusiastic review of Brannon Ellis’s book. Swinburnson does mention Robert L. Reymond’s position in both editions of the latter’s systematic theology and the resulting controversy as exemplified in Robert Letham’s critique of Reymond’s position. Here is the link: http://www.kerux.com/doc/2501A4.asp

Now I have to examine W. G. T. Shedd’s Dogmatics and see if he engages with this “problem” in Christ’s aseity in Himself. Oh, and for that matter, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Calvin’s contemporary.

By: Richard Chelvan

Richard Chelvan — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:05:07 +0000

Now I have to examine W. G. T. Shedd’s Dogmatics and see if he engages with this “problem” in Christ’s aseity in Himself.