Acknowledgments
§1 A Systematic Approach Reconsidered
1.1 Theological Approaches to the Topic of Wrath
1.2 Renewed Interest in the Divine Perfections
1.3 Purpose, Plan and Limitations
PART ONE
§2 The Subject Matter of the Doctrine of the Divine Perfections:
Content Impressing Form
2.1 The Living God
2.2 The Self-Named God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
2.3 The Eternal God
§3 The Arrangement and Inner Logic of the Divine Perfections:Form
Reflecting Content
3.1 Efficiency and the Way of Intensification: Francis Turretin on
the Reformed Orthodoxy Arrangement of the Attributes
3.2 Beyond the Subjectivity of Morals and Doctrine: Friedrich
Schleiermacher on the Attributes which Relate to the Immediate
Self-Consciousness
3.3 An Overflowing Depth: Karl Barth on God's Love in Freedom Modes
of Divine Perfection
PART TWO
§4 The Lord's Vineyard and the Rule of his Generosity: Matthew
20:1-16 and Isaiah 5:1-7
4.1 The Image of the Vineyard
4.2 The Righteousness of God: Self-Identical in Every Mode
4.3 The Living Parable
§5 Wrath, Righteousness, and the Acquittal of the Guilty: Romans
3:21-26 and Exodus 34:6-7
5.1 Sinners under God's Wrath
5.2 The Gift of Jesus Christ: Wrath and the Exchange of Death for
Life
5.3 Acquittal of the Guilty
§6 Publication of Salvation and Final Judgment: Revelation 14:14-20
.... and Amos 3:2
6.1 The Righteous God, the Hope of the Persecuted
6.2 Wrath, History and the Divine Pedagogy
Bibliography
Subject Index
Scripture Index
A constructive essay in systematic theology focused on the doctrine of God, particularly God's wrath among his other attributes.
Dr Jeremy Wynne holds a doctorate in Systematic Theology from King's College, University of Aberdeen.
Talk of divine wrath stands at the margins of much contemporary
theology, and the great merit of this fine essay is not simply to
recall attention to a neglected scriptural theme but to show how it
belongs to a well-ordered account of God's perfect righteousness.
This is a potent exercise in exegetical dogmatics- well-researched,
carefully argued, and elegantly presented -that should be of
considerable interest both in the church and the academy.
*Donald Wood, Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Department of
Divinity and Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen, UK.*
Wrath Among the Perfections of God's Life sets out to correct a
long-standing deficit in modern academic theology, the hostility
toward Divine wrath as an attribute of the Divine nature. As such,
the book itself is decidedly modern in its approach and content:
while Lactantius, Irenaeus and Nyssa make important but slender
contributions to the work, Schleiermacher, Barth, and Bavinck
dominate. The Protestant scholastics -notably Turretin -come in for
close attention, and through them, Calvin's Institutes. This is
natural, for the opposition to Divine wrath as an attribute, or
even aspect, of God's nature is born of the modern era, and has
become axiomatic in Schleiermacher, Ritschl, and present-day
adherents. This lacuna extends to Biblical scholarship in the
modern vein, as this work amply demonstrates. Wynne shows a fine
range in his treatment of contemporary authors, moving deftly from
analytic philosophers, to systematicians such as Webster, Jüngle
and Tanner, to secondary authorities on Reformed dogmatics. Wynne's
aim is to open up conceptual and doctrinal space for Divine wrath
within the life of God: such wrath, he argues, should be set out as
a mode of God's righteousness, serving the end of God's merciful
justification of the ungodly. Wynne has shown independence of mind
and judgment; he has marshaled extensive research in primary and
secondary materials; he has argued a clear and sustained thesis
through careful and rigorous conceptual analysis. Most importantly,
Wynne has taken a doctrine self-evidently central to Christian
teaching in the pre-modern era, the wrath of the Living God, and
brought it back into conversation with modern academic theology and
exegesis -a fine scholarly gift to theology.
*Kate Sonderegger, Professor of Theology, Virginia Theological
Seminary, USA.*
Alongside its astute engagement with contemporary sources, the book
nevertheless challenges one's expectations of what a modern
theological text should be...W.'s study illustrates expertly how
doctrinal theology might yet be serviceable to contemporary
Protestantism.
*Theological Studies*
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