Book 1/Chapter 13
The Limits (section 5)
1. What is the fundamental affirmation about the Trinity which Calvin requires?
2. Have the church fathers spoken on this with one voice?
3. What are the dangers of speaking about this at all?
4. What is the essential attitude of the false teachers?
5. Can someone scruple about trinitarian language without being a false teacher?
6. What should these “squeamish men” be careful of?
7. Those who like to quarrel over words have what kind of problem?
The Thing Itself (section 6)
1. What term does Calvin use for “person?”
2. What distinguishes each from the other two?
3. How many subsistences are there?
4. Are there incommunicable attributes within the Godhead?
5. How are these different from what normally speak of as incommunicable attributes?
The Deity of Christ (section 7)
1. What cannot be imagined concerning God’s word?
2. What impelled the ancient prophets to speak?
3. What is the Old Testament basis for the apostolic teaching that God created the world through the agency of the Word?
4. What are we to make of Calvin’s use of Ecclesiasticus?
5. What is Calvin’s understanding of Lady Wisdom in Proverbs 8?
6. What is the well-spring of all oracles?
These questions are for the readings on January 31, 2009, day 31, and the readings can be found here.