The Divine Mediator: How Calvin’s Debate with Francesco Stancaro can help us think about Functional Subordination in the Trinity.
In the last few years a controversy about the Trinity has erupted in conservative evangelical circles about the relationship between God the Father and God the Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Some evangelicals have argued that the Son is eternally functionally subordinate to the Father, which means that the Son will always, in eternity, be subordinate or submit to the Father in all his work and roles, not merely because the Son has a human nature and subordinated himself in his incarnation, but because of eternal relationships in the Trinity. In other words, there an eternal order in the relationship...
