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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...

This co-extensiveness of the activities of the Father and the Son is expressed in functional categories: they both do the same things. Nevertheless, it is difficult not to perceive some ontological implications behind the descriptions of common function. (b) The word “because” (γάρ) demands explanation. In what way does the truth that “whatever the Father does the Son also does” provide the ground or the explanation (surely the force of γάρ in this context) of the truth that the Son “can do only
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