Book contents
- Human Anguish and God’s Power
- Current Issues in Theology
- Human Anguish and God’s Power
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Echternach Procession: A Preface
- 1 Introduction: Consoling Anguish and Making It Worse
- Part I Glory
- Part II Kingdom
- Part III Power
- 7 Assumptions about God’s Power in Problematic Pastoral Remarks
- 8 The Triune God’s Intrinsic Power
- 9 The Triune God’s Power in Two Registers
- 10 The “Uselessness” of the Triune God
- Part IV Stammering Praise
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - The Triune God’s Power in Two Registers
from Part III - Power
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2021
- Human Anguish and God’s Power
- Current Issues in Theology
- Human Anguish and God’s Power
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Echternach Procession: A Preface
- 1 Introduction: Consoling Anguish and Making It Worse
- Part I Glory
- Part II Kingdom
- Part III Power
- 7 Assumptions about God’s Power in Problematic Pastoral Remarks
- 8 The Triune God’s Intrinsic Power
- 9 The Triune God’s Power in Two Registers
- 10 The “Uselessness” of the Triune God
- Part IV Stammering Praise
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In addition to the senses in which God’s sovereignty is “powerful” intrinsically in God’s glory and in creative blessing, it is “powerful” in two other senses in the registers of eschatological blessing and reconciliation of the estranged.Those two senses cannot be conflated because, while they are rooted in canonical narratives of God relating by way of Incarnation, they have irreducibly different narrative logics. The differences between these senses of “power” is brought out by analysis of implications of the different taxis in which the “Persons” of the Trinity are engaged in each strand of the economy. Each expresses different qualities of the ‘power’ of God’s intrinsic sovereignty. Each brings with it a different vocabulary in which to characterize God’s power. So appropriate accounts of God’s power must stammer, shifting unsystematically among those vocabularies.
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- Human Anguish and God's Power , pp. 287 - 348Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020