Absolute person and moral experience : a study in neo-calvinism /
Nathan D. Shannon.
- London, UK ; New York, NY : T&T Clark, c2022.
- xiii, 204 p. ; 25 cm.
- T & T Clark enquiries in theological ethics .
- T & T Clark enquiries in theological ethics. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-202) and index.
"Presenting a neo-Calvinist account of human moral experience, this book is an advance upon the tradition of Augustinian moral theology. The first two chapters are theological interpretations of Genesis 2:17 and 3:6 respectively. Chapter 3 approaches the neo-Calvinist notion of God as absolute person through a consideration of theologies of human reason and history. Chapter 4 considers the relationship between absolute person and classical trinitarianism, and the significance of absolute person for accommodation, hermeneutics, and the Creator/creature relation and distinction. The fifth chapter considers the role of the incarnation in Bavinck's thought, and thus provides a backdrop for reflection upon absolute person from a biblical theological point of view. Shannon concludes with the claim that, according to the Bavincks, Vos, and Van Til, human moral experience is the product of a divine self-expression primarily in the Son"--