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Divine Perfection and Human Potentiality

The Trinitarian Anthropology of Hilary of Poitiers

By: Jarred A. Mercer

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Divine Perfection and Human Potentiality

The Trinitarian Anthropology of Hilary of Poitiers

By: Jarred A. Mercer

The place of Hilary of Poitiers in the debates and developments of early Christianity is tenuous in contemporary scholarship. His invaluable historical position is unquestioned, but the coherence and significance of his own thought is less certain. In this book, Jarred A. Mercer makes a case for understanding Hilary not only as an important historical figure, but as a noteworthy and independent thinker. Divine Perfection and Human Potentiality offers a new paradigm for understanding Hilary's work De Trinitate. The book contends that in all of Hilary's polemical and constructive argumentation, which is essentially trinitarian, he is inherently developing an anthropology. The work therefore reinterprets Hilary's overall theological project in terms of the continual, and for him necessary, anthropological corollary of trinitarian theology- to reframe it in terms of a "trinitarian anthropology." The coherence of Hilary's work depends upon this framework, and without it his thought continues to elude his readers. Mercer demonstrates this through following Hilary's main lines of trinitarian argument, out of which flow his anthropological vision. These trinitarian arguments unfold into a progressive picture of humanity from potentiality to perfection.

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0190903546

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Love Makes No Sense

An Invitation to Christian Theology

By: Jennifer Strawbridge,Jarred Mercer

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Love Makes No Sense

An Invitation to Christian Theology

By: Jennifer Strawbridge,Jarred Mercer

Love Makes No Sense is an introduction to a faith that refuses the abstract, and sees no distinction between theology and practice. The aim of this book is not to satisfy the intellect, but to train its readers through approachable theological teaching to live the love that Christian theology proclaims. Suitable for people looking to explore Christian theology more deeply, be they life-long Christians who want a deeper understanding of their faith, new Christians, or those who are interested in the Christian faith and looking to find out more.

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0334056292

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Love Makes No Sense

An Invitation to Christian Theology

By: Jennifer Strawbridge ,Jarred Mercer,Peter Groves

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Love Makes No Sense

An Invitation to Christian Theology

By: Jennifer Strawbridge ,Jarred Mercer,Peter Groves

The Christian faith is something people practice. The Church prays, listens to the Scriptures, celebrates the sacraments, cares for the suffering, and liberates the oppressed. This is where the task of theology begins. In "Love Makes No Sense", each chapter engages central issues of theology but remains focused on the Christian life. Although it is a book about doctrine—Christian teaching—it insists that one cannot present a doctrine of the Trinity, or Incarnation, or anything else in the abstract. Teaching divorced from everyday life is not Christian teaching. This does not mean this book is primarily 'practical' as opposed to 'theological'. It is an invitation to Christian theology that refuses to separate the two. The aim of this book is not to satisfy the intellect, but to train its readers through approachable theological teaching to live the love that Christian theology proclaims. Suitable for people looking to explore Christian theology more deeply, be they life-long Christians who want a deeper understanding of their faith, new Christians, or those who are interested in the Christian faith and looking to find out more.

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Divine Perfection and Human Potentiality

The Trinitarian Anthropology of Hilary of Poitiers

By: Jarred A. Mercer

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Divine Perfection and Human Potentiality

The Trinitarian Anthropology of Hilary of Poitiers

By: Jarred A. Mercer

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The Trinitarian Anthropology of Hilary of Poitiers

By: Jarred A. Mercer

The place of Hilary of Poitiers in the debates and developments of early Christianity is tenuous in contemporary scholarship. In this book, Jarred A. Mercer makes a case for understanding Hilary not only as an important historical figure, but as a significant and independent thinker. Divine Perfection and Human Potentiality offers a new paradigm for understanding Hilary's work De Trinitate as a trinitarian anthropology.

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