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Systematic Theology

The Monarchy of the Father

Four studies on the doctrine that the Father is the sole source (archē) of the Son and the Spirit: what it claims and why it guards monotheism, how it was built by African theologians in Carthage and Alexandria (including a genuine, unresolved scholarly disagreement over Gregory of Nazianzus), how Athanasius carried it directly into Ethiopia through the church that confesses it to this day, and how philosophers Beau Branson and Joshua Sijuwade have revived it in contemporary analytic theology.

Parts
4
Catalogue
No. 03
State
Complete
KeywordsTrinity·Patristics·African Christianity
Begin — part one

Contents

  1. 01

    One God, One Source

    What the doctrine actually claims, and why it isn't tritheism

  2. 02

    The Fathers Who Said So

    Tertullian of Carthage, Origen and Athanasius of Alexandria — and one honest disagreement

  3. 03

    An African Church, Living Still

    From Athanasius’s own hand to a church that confesses this today

  4. 04

    A Contemporary Argument

    Why analytic theology is returning to a doctrine it had mostly forgotten