1. Calvin on the aseity of the Son: the 1559 Institutes as entry-point -- 2. The autothean controversies: Calvin's complex solidarity with classical trinitarianism -- 3. The theological shape of the Autothean debates: eternal generation's role in classical trinitarianism -- 4. Identity, distinction, or tension in trinitarian language?: 'loose' approaches to the Son's aseity -- 5. Tension to distinction: classical and mainstream reformed approaches to the Son's aseity -- 6. The irreducible triunity of God: the reformed minority report's strict distinction of the two ways of speaking -- 7. Of himself, God gives himself
Summary
Brannon Ellis investigates the various Reformation and post-Reformation responses to Calvin's affirmation of the Son's aseity (or essential self-existence), a significant episode in the history of theology that is often ignored or misunderstood
