Analysis Of Christ And Creation: A Trinitarian Mediation In Time And Space

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2.4.3.3.2 Christ and Creation: A Trinitarian Mediation in Time and Space
Gunton's emphasis on Christ and creation comes from his critique on Barth's theology which, according to Gunton, gives more importance to redemption than creation, and is inadequate on the discussion of Christ's mediating work. Gunton opines that tradition removed Jesus Christ in their doctrine of creation, so there is a need to restore the doctrine of creation with Christology. In his doctrine of creation, therefore, Gunton stresses Christ's mediating role in creation.
In his theology, the reality of the Trinitarian God's involvement in time and space takes shape in Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God. Gunton maintains Christ's role as imperative in God's creation plan. He says, “Apart from …show more content…

Taking from Irenaeus, Gunton says that the Spirit is one of the complementing “two hands” with which the Trinitarian God the Father is carrying out all his works in creation to eschatology. He argues for the Spirit as the particularising and perfecting Spirit.2
Gunton's concern for the Spirit stems from the fact that in most church traditions the Spirit is not talked of as person, and his work is often neglected (Gunton, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit 79). He claims that the Western tradition stressed God's action as the action of One God rather than the work of three persons in one Godhead, leading to the incomplete doctrine of the Spirit. He maintains therefore that the solution to this problem is found in the concept of particularity or articulating the Spirit as the person (Gunton, The One, the Three 203), and an understanding “of the Spirit's part in a unified conception of God's action” (Gunton, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

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