The doctrine of the Trinity and the Gospel of Salvation in the theology of Isaac Dorner

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The thesis is concerned with the relationship between the doctrine of God and the doctrines pertaining to salvation in the theology of Isaac Dorner (1808-1884) with particular reference to his System ojChristian Faith. The thesis seeks to depict the way in which Dorner both exposits and uses his doctrine of God to serve the purposes of demonstrating the certainty of the Christian faith, the necessity of the incarnation of Jesus Christ, and the coherence of the doctrine of substitutionary atonement. We argue that his acco/Illt of God is marked by a consistent, though not unproblematic, interest in demonstrating the certitude of the Christian idea of God as the objective content of basic Christian faith. His account of the economic relation between God and world is analysed in terms of its capacity to depict the possibility of divine immanence within the world without detriment to the world's distinction or prejudicing God's Self-sufficiency. We argue that the world's freedom, though not

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