A Biblical Examination of an Ontological Reading of Theology in Trinity, in the Believer and in Church

Erwin Samuel Henderson

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A Biblical Examination of an Ontological Reading of Theology in Trinity, in the Believer and in Church

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Erwin Samuel Henderson. A Biblical Examination of an Ontological Reading of Theology In Trinity, In the Believer and In Church. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/dcb31162-ada2-424f-ba79-87066fd3b390.

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E. S. Henderson. A Biblical Examination of an Ontological Reading of Theology in Trinity, in the Believer and in Church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/dcb31162-ada2-424f-ba79-87066fd3b390

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Erwin Samuel Henderson. A Biblical Examination of an Ontological Reading of Theology In Trinity, In the Believer and In Church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/dcb31162-ada2-424f-ba79-87066fd3b390.

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Erwin Samuel Henderson

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Church (Ecclesiology)

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Abstract

The rationale is to formulate the unique contribution that ontological thinking brings to understanding God in Trinity: in substance, in relationship and in function; the consequences for the believer through redefined relationship with the Trinity in the Person of Christ; and the rediscovery of ontological principles to be restored, in renewal of the Church of Jesus Christ. This proposal advocates that recovery of ontological truths on the grounds of the interrelationship and interaction of Trinity. Current trends, such as the subordinate-authority-submission and egalitarian debate are critiqued in the light of the ontological reading of Scripture. The recovery of apostolicity as an ontological attribute of Godhead provides significant insight and cohesion to the ontological Trinitarian proposal.The significance of how God produces existentially and ontologically His life within the believer will define humanity in being, through relationship to Godhead. Religious practices both biblical and extra-biblical are examined and considered to better understand the extent of the paradigmatic shift that occurs in the person of Jesus Christ. This proposal develops a fuller understanding of the composition of a human being in the image of God in ontological terms in contrast to the orthodoxy’s dichotomist, trichotomist assertions. The perspective of states in which a human being exists, culminate in the identification of the ‘πνευματικός’ believer as the sole form of legitimate existence that is biblically normalized and warranted.The ontological significance will also redefine church according to the nature and Person of Godhead, thereby widely reforming structures and functions according to ontological truths and practices. This argumentation has reconnected Church to the Trinity ontologically and demonstrated that Church utterly depends upon Trinitarian substance and operation to exist according to divine intentions.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, she has no life of her own. Church is this incarnation because her origins, means, and object are of Godhead’s nature, intra-relationship, and operation; whether microcosm or macrocosm, her ontological existence in apostolic Godhead is the defining criterion. Erwin Samuel Henderson 05/01/2021.

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