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Although the doctrine of eternal generation has been affirmed by theologians of nearly every ecclesiastical tradition since the fourth century, it has fallen on hard times among evangelical theologians since the nineteenth century. The doctrine has been a structural element in two larger doctrinal complexes: Christology and the Trinity. The neglect of the doctrine of eternal generation represents...

has the advantage of making clear not only what is at stake but what the fundamental issues are on which the polarized positions turn. How, then, shall we think our way through the interaction of our exegesis of John 5:26 (and, implicitly, other texts supporting the eternal generation of the Son) with the issues of what we have (sometimes rather glibly) referred to as the Son’s submission or dependence or subordination? Five reflections follow: First, all sides ought to agree that one may distinguish
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