Does anyone have any good articles on the Eternal Generation of the Son?

[Doulos McKenzie]

Does anyone have any good articles on the Eternal Generation of the Son?

 

[Semper Fidelis]

There's a lot more here than simply the Eternal Generation of the Son but this dustup last summer had really good articles all around: http://www.alliancenet.org/trinity-debate

Of all the articles I read, however, this was one of the most comprehensively devastating critiques: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2016/11/23/kevin-giles-the-ets-response-to-grudem-and-ware/

After Dr Erickson had spoken, Dr Grudem spoke. He too began by saying that he now believed the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son and that he would be correcting his Systematic Theology when he revised it!!! I thought to myself, how long will it be before these two hugely influential evangelical theologians will confess that teaching the three divine persons are hierarchically ordered is also mistaken and a threat to the historic faith.
Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesusc...ponse-to-grudem-and-ware/#oXCiogtcEljLhDGm.99

 

[Doulos McKenzie]

There's a lot more here than simply the Eternal Generation of the Son but this dustup last summer had really good articles all around: http://www.alliancenet.org/trinity-debate

Of all the articles I read, however, this was one of the most comprehensively devastating critiques: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2016/11/23/kevin-giles-the-ets-response-to-grudem-and-ware/

I was asking about Eternal Generation not ETS, but thanks for the articles.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

Read the artile I just sent you (the second). Eternal Generation is a key element of the article. It's part and parcel of the whole ESS thing since Grudem dened Eternal Generation and the two are connected. The author lays out the Biblical and historical issues around Eternal Generation and what the Church has meant by it.

 

[Dachaser]

Very interesting article there on that link.
I agree with the gist of what was said regarding that there is no eternal subordination of the Son to the father, but was Jesus not subordinate to Him while incarnated here upon the earth, and what about where Paul states that Jesus Himself shall turn the Kingdom back to the father, so that God can be all in all at the end?

 

[Ask Mr. Religion]

See:
http://www.bible-researcher.com/eternal-generation.html

https://www.puritanboard.com/threads/nicene-christology.21767/

Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Eternal Generation of the Son as the Second Person of the Trinity, in The Christian's Reasonable Service, 1.4, 147

Francis Turretin, Twenty-Ninth Question: The Eternal Generation of the Son. Was the Son of God begotten of the Father from eternity? We affirm in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 1.3.29, 292

Richard A. Muller, The Eternal Generation of the Son, in Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, 4.6.1, 283

 

[Ask Mr. Religion]

Very interesting article there on that link.
I agree with the gist of what was said regarding that there is no eternal subordination of the Son to the father, but was Jesus not subordinate to Him while incarnated here upon the earth, and what about where Paul states that Jesus Himself shall turn the Kingdom back to the father, so that God can be all in all at the end?

Off topic. I think you have been answered in your own thread elsewhere:
https://www.puritanboard.com/threads/is-the-eternal-sonship-of-Jesus-a-biblical-concept.93604/

 

[Dachaser]

Off topic. I think you have been answered in your own thread elsewhere:
https://www.puritanboard.com/threads/is-the-eternal-sonship-of-Jesus-a-biblical-concept.93604/

Thanks for the reminder.

 

[TylerRay]

Warfield - Calvin's Doctrine of the Trinity

 

[Joshua]

Does anyone have any good articles on the Eternal Generation of the Son?

I think it's likely.

 

[TylerRay]

Not an article, but here is an interesting episode of Christ the Center on the subject: The Aseity of the Son.