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                                                                                    THE AGENCY OF GOD: TWENTY-ONE THESES

                                                                                                        Schubert M. Ogden

1. Although "the agency of God" is a topic that may fall to be considered in pursuing different inquiries, our interest in it here arises out of the inquiry distinctive of Christian theology, and, more exactly, Christian systematic theology.

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9. The love of God reflexively, in relation to Godself, is the agency of God ad intra that constitutes God as essentially triune: God the Father being the primordial unity of God as both loving Godself and loved by Godself; God the Son being God as loved by Godself,. and God the Holy Spirit being God as loving Godself, in their primordial difference -- from one another and from their primordial unity.

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18. This third case of God's mediate and indirect action is concretely instanced by the effective use of any valid means of salvation -- not only the secondary means of word and sacraments, or even the primary means of the visible church as such, but also, and above all, the primal means of Jesus Christ himself, through whom God's intention that all women and men and any other rational beings be saved is decisively re-presented as the gift and demand of faith.

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