The Subordinate Substitute: Another Wrong Turn on Carillon Avenue - Paperback

by Peter Carnley (Author)

In this book Peter Carnley examines the logical connection between the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of redemption. In the companion volume to this, Arius on Carillon Avenue, contemporary expressions of belief in the "eternal functional subordination" of the Son to the Father were carefully discussed and found wanting when measured against the norms of orthodox trinitarian belief. This book examines the repercussions of this defective "trinitarian subordinationism" in relation to recent attempts to defend the "penal substitutionary theory" of the Atonement, which in turn is also found to fall short of trinitarian norms. As an alternative a less theoretical and speculative "incorporative" or "participative" theology of redemption is proposed.

Author Biography

Peter Carnley was Anglican archbishop of Perth from 1981 to 2005 and primate of Australia for the last five of those years. He is an honorary fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Melbourne, and holds a first degree from the University of Melbourne, a research degree from Cambridge UK, a Lambeth DD, and a number of honorary doctorates. He is author of The Structure of Resurrection Belief (1987), Reflections in Glass (2004), the companion volumes Resurrection in Retrospect and The Reconstruction of Resurrection Belief (2019) and Arius on Carillon Avenue (2023). He and his wife Ann now live in Fremantle, Western Australia.