But the movement from ontological processions to divine missions is, as noted, a contingent act of the Trinity. This means that the Trinity deliberated regarding the divine missions. (John V. Fesko, The Trinity and the Covenant of Redemption, 181)
A better way forward, which preserves the distinctions between the processions and missions, is to recognize that obedience is the hyponym of love within the covenantal framework of Deuteronomy. … I contend that obedience is economic and part of the Son’s mission, not part of His eternal procession from the Father. (Fesko, 191)
The love of the immanent Trinity becomes manifest in the covenantal economic missions of both the Son and Spirit, namely, the Son’s obedience and the outpouring of the Spirit. (Fesko, 192)
If the Covenant of Redemption is eternal, neither of the ontological processions nor the divine missions but the movement from one to the other, and contingent, then we have an eternal, contingent covenant whereby the Son from eternity covenanted to obey the Father through God's plan of salvation, in order to redeem a people.
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