A Biblical Examination of an Ontological reading of Theology, in Trinity, in the [Christian] Believer and in Church

Erwin Samuel Henderson Dr Ph.D.

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A Biblical Examination of an Ontological reading of Theology, in Trinity, in the [Christian] Believer and in Church

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Erwin Samuel Henderson Dr Ph.D. A Biblical Examination of an Ontological Reading of Theology, In Trinity, In the [christian] Believer and In Church. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ac7101f1-d606-4eaa-8db7-bb24ea385582?q=2019.

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E. S. H. D. Ph.d. A Biblical Examination of an Ontological reading of Theology, in Trinity, in the [Christian] Believer and in Church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ac7101f1-d606-4eaa-8db7-bb24ea385582?q=2019

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Erwin Samuel Henderson Dr Ph.D. A Biblical Examination of an Ontological Reading of Theology, In Trinity, In the [christian] Believer and In Church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ac7101f1-d606-4eaa-8db7-bb24ea385582?q=2019.

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Erwin Samuel Henderson Dr Ph.D.

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Church (Ecclesiology)

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Abstract

Ontological theology considered in some theological works, was given little significance as a primary theme. The thesis attempts to restore prominence and cohesion of an ontological construct, whereby function and structure, are the subordinate product defined by the ontological theological perspective. The effects are far reaching for theological definitions of the essential nature of the Trinity, the believer and the church; representing a paradigmatic shift in theological understanding, affecting profoundly the nature existential Christocentric Christianity. The ontological theology of Trinity contrasts with the relational subordination, authority-submission proponents and opponents, in substance, in relationship and in function. The recovery of apostolicity as an ontological attribute of Godhead provides significant insight and cohesion to the ontological Trinitarian proposal.The effects upon the believer ontologically are contrasted with the religious disposition and the positional judicial approach to salvation. The prototypical shift occurs in the Person of Jesus-Christ to an existential reality originated in Trinity and replicated ontologically in the believer. The nature of humankind is thereby reinterpreted giving definition to the “spiritual man” as the sole form of legitimate existence that is biblically normalized and warranted.The ontological primacy provides an alternate construct to the historical structural understanding of church that has not changed since the early patristic period. The proposal emerging from this exegesis is a model of church: ontological and apostolic, originated, [re]sourced, and incarnate from the nature of Trinity, demonstrating undeniably that it is impossible for the Church of divine intent to exist outside of the three persons of the Godhead. Christo-centricity restores Church to the origin, source and 'telos'. Present day observations may exemplify distanciation of contemporary expressions of church from ontological definitions. A return to source represents a theological and ecclesiastic field of renewal to perpetuate in the coming years.

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