Epilogue

Summary

Three areas of questioning above all press in upon us on the basis of the Christology offered in these pages. The first has to do with the doctrine of the immanent Trinity. How is the immanent Trinity to be conceived if this Christology be accepted? What relation of the Father to the Son does it imply? What relation of the Son to the Father? What relation of each and both to the Spirit? The second has to do with the relation of Trinity to election. I danced around this issue a bit in Chapter 7. In the book that follows this one, it will constitute a central problem. And, third, how might it be possible to think together a biblically warranted concept of divine “immutability” with divine “passibility” (in the sense of being acted upon)? A solution to the last question has already been adumbrated here. But I will enter into it more deeply in the next book – once answers to the first two areas of questioning are in place. In the process, I will elaborate more fully what I understand by a “psychological ontology” of God.