note; from the beginning of creation to its eschatological consummation the economy of salvation manifests the divine love. From this love God moves beyond the divine self-sufficiency to the creation, reconciliation and perfection of a finite ‘other’, and grants it participation in the unity of God’s trinitarian life. As Pannenberg says at the end of the concluding paragraph, not without poetic flair, ‘the distinction and unity of the immanent and economic Trinity constitute the heartbeat of the
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