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Keith Ward Trinity (Gospels present three centres of consciousness…

- - - - Patristic consensus - Two Wills in Christ
      - Morris - Two minds in Christ
  - - - The Spirit is not depicted as an individual participating in the same ways/equal terms with the other two
      - Jesus' human consciousness and its tricky relation to the divine Word and the divine Father
      - Soclai Trinity not obvious
- - - - No violation of Man Jesus' freedom (HEAVENLY PEOPLE)
      - No alienation between God and this man
      - Objective IDEAL for humans
    - - Only as God as he is turned to creation in compassion and enters into creaturely existence --> PARTICIPATION
  - - - Chalcedonian Creed -- only the MAN part
      - His limitations in knowledge and power
        
        What about Jesus' displays of extraordinary knowledge (mind-reading) and power (miracles)??
    - - Jesus (human aspect) ends up praying to himself (divine aspect) [argument in 79-80 not convincing]
  - - - Human aspect
        
        Synergistic dependence on the divine
        
        Human aspect prays to the divine God
      - Divine aspect
        
        Divine God participating in creation
      - Problems with traditional formulation MISLEADING
        
        Person
        
        Three distinct minds/wills in God
        
        Nature
        
        Impersonal
- - - - Son of Man
        
        Represents the univeral judgment and redemption of God
        
        Daniel 7:13, Matt 25
    - - Vague and seems like a mere FORCE/POWER
        
        But Jesus does depict the HS in personal terms
        
        Greek noun for SPIRIT is neuter, but Gospel records call HS by masculine (personal) pronoun - HE
        
        John 15:26 John 16:13-14
  - - - God/Logos = Thinker/Thought!
      - There is ONLY ONE WILL in Jesus
        
        "Not a rejection of Patristic teaching" (57)
        
        BUT 3rd Council of Constantinople (681) rejected one-will Christology as heresy
      - Jesus the man is the perfect embodiment of the will/mind/values of God
        
        Modalism? pg 61-3
        
        God the Father the ORIGIN of divine Love
        
        Jesus - God the Father as Divine IDEAL manifested
        
        Spirit - God the Father as DIVINE ENABLER AND EMPOWERMENT, reconciling all creation to himself
        
        Functional modalism?
    - - Tradition??
- - - - Christ the image of the invisible God
      - All things made through him