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  • Constitution, identity, and the Trinity: rebuttal to Leftow

  • William Hasker
  • Journal:
    Religious Studies / Volume 59 / Issue 1 / March 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 May 2022, pp. 165-172
    Print publication:
    March 2023
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  • Brian Leftow continues to argue that the metaphysical concept of constitution cannot be used to explicate the doctrine of the Trinity, as I have attempted to do. He also defends his own, distinctive view of the relation of Jesus to the Father. I maintain that he fails on both counts.

  • 7 - Conclusion

  • Tyson L. Putthoff, University of Oklahoma
  • Book:
    Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near East
    Published online:
    28 October 2020
    Print publication:
    05 November 2020, pp 190-198

  • Summary

    Chapter seven concludes this study. I begin the conclusion with a chapter-by-chapter summary of what we have found in the foregoing chapters. After this, I offer a more synthetic analysis of near eastern and Mediterranean ideas about the human self and its relationship to the divine. I also offer some thoughts on the implications of my study on near eastern and biblical studies, as well as on the study of early Judaism and Christianity.

Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near East
  • Tyson L. Putthoff
  • Published online:
    28 October 2020
    Print publication:
    05 November 2020
  • In this book, Tyson Putthoff explores the relationship between gods and humans, and between divine nature and human nature, in the Ancient Near East. In this world, gods lived among humans. The two groups shared the world with one another, each playing a special role in maintaining order in the cosmos. Humans also shared aspects of a godlike nature. Even in their natural condition, humans enjoyed a taste of the divine state. Indeed, gods not only lived among humans, but also they lived inside them, taking up residence in the physical body. As such, human nature was actually a composite of humanity and divinity. Putthoff offers new insights into the ancients' understanding of humanity's relationship with the gods, providing a comparative study of this phenomenon from the third millennium BCE to the first century CE.