The God Who Graciously Elects:
Seven Lectures on the Doctrine of God
In this lecture series, Professor Bruce McCormack constructs his original and thoroughly post-metaphysical doctrine of God. McCormack begins his ambitious lecture series with a ‘deconstruction’ of current trends in evangelical theology. The corrective, he suggests, involves a return to the very earliest of doctrinal thinking. Thus, McCormack provides us with a masterful survey of the doctrine of God in both the ancient and modern world, as well as the New Testament attestation to the mystery of the Trinity and the Deity of Jesus Christ. The major contours of Professor McCormack’s project include a Christology derived solely from the narrated history of Jesus of Nazareth as attested in Holy Scripture and in turn, and a doctrine of God developed solely on the basis of that Christology. Along the way, McCormack tackles serious challenges posed to Christology by modernity, including the unity of the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ as it pertains to the communication of his attributes, his agency and his psychological development.
Lectures Series Outline
Lecture 1: Is the Reformation Over? Reflections on the Place of the Doctrine of God in Evangelical Theology Today | view resource
Lecture 2: From the One God to the Trinity: The Creation of the Orthodox Understanding of God | view resource
Lecture 3: The Great Reversal: From the Economy of God to the Trinity in Modern Theology | view resource
Lecture 4: The God Who Reveals Himself: The Mystery of the Trinity in the New Testament | view resource
Lecture 5: Which Christology? Refining the Economic Basis of the Christian Doctrine of God | view resource
Lecture 6: The Processions Contain the Missions: Reconstructing the Doctrine of an Immanent Trinity | view resource
Lecture 7: The Being of God as Gift and Grace: On Freedom and Necessity, Aseity and the Divine “Attributes” | view resource
Biography
Bruce McCormack is Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he also earned his Ph.D. Dr. McCormack also holds an M.Div. from Nazarene Theological Seminary and an honorary doctorate of theology from the Friedrich Schiller Universitat in Jena, Germany. A Presbyterian, McCormack is interested in the history of modern theology, from Schleiermacher and Hegel through Karl Barth. He is a member of the General Assembly committee commissioned to write a new catechism for the Presbyterian Church (USA) and has been a member of the panel on doctrine for the Church of Scotland.
