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Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 4: The Triunity of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume Four, The Triunity of God, examines the doctrine of the Trinity, including unity and distinction in the Trinity as they were understood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and addresses the deity and person of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Again we encounter the adaptation of language from Anselm’s ontological argument—in Pictet’s case, probably by way of Cartesian philosophy—as a proof of the oneness of God and therefore the equality in unity of Father and Son. 6.3 The Aseitas, or Self-Existence, of the Son A. Views of the Reformers The Reformed doctrine of the Trinity (and, of course, also the doctrine of the Person of Christ) is characterized by a declaration of the aseity of Christ’s divinity: considered as God, the Second Person
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