Book Reviews

Letter and Response theologian in the church to teach clearly the eternal generation ofthe Son by the Father. This was a significant and important step forward in the church's understanding of the doctrine of the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. The difficulty was, however, that Origen taught that the generation of the Son by the Father was an act o!God's will. This was not only a serious flaw in Origen's position, but it caused a great deal of grief and confusion in the church. The orthodox...