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A Fresh Articulation of the Unity of God This volume critiques various ways divine simplicity--which suggests God's being is identical to God's attributes--has shaped Christian theology and offers a fresh articulation of the unity of God. The author proposes that the concept of divine simplicity, carried over from the Greek metaphysical tradition, was heedlessly incorporated into the language of Christian trinitarian theology during the patristic period. He identifies numerous problems that have resulted from its retention in postpatristic Christian dogmatics, arguing that uncritical use of the concept renders the biblical God inexpressible and unknowable. This major contribution to contemporary trinitarian dogmatics also contains a unique approach to the problem of Christian-Muslim relations.

Table of Contents:
Contents Introduction 1. The Simplicity of Consistent Perichoresis Auseinandersetzung Are Divine Attributes Projections? Not a Possible Perfection of the God of the Gospel The Régnon Thesis 2. The Unstable Synthesis of St. Thomas Aquinas Ground Clearing Thomas's Theology of Divine Nature The Patrological Alternative The Trajectory of Protological Simplicity Excursus: True Gnosis in Clement of Alexandria Sitz im Leben The True Gnostic The Defense of Philosophy as Handmaiden in Theology Christian Platonism The Difficulty of Evaluating Clement Evangelization of Hellenism 3. Muddle, Not Mystery Clarity on a Collapsing Synthesis How Augustine Stumbled (cf. 1 Cor. 1:23) over the Folly of God The Diversity of Simplicities In Defense of Augustine The Radicality of Protological Simplicity The Personal Union Christological Apophaticism: The Coincidence of Opposites in Christ Crucified 4. Analogy and the Communicatio Idiomatum Analogia Entis? Vindicating Univocity Sorting out Paradox and Similitude Jesus as Vestige of the Trinity The Analogy of Faith as Union with Christ At the Mercy of the Spirit Conclusion: And Christ Must Reign until . . . (1 Cor. 15:25) The Counterthesis of Analytic Theology The Rule Theory of Doctrine The Decalogue's First Table as the Rule of Weak Simplicity Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases Indexes

About the Author :
Paul R. Hinlicky (PhD, Union Theological Seminary, New York; DHabil, Comenius University, Bratislava) is Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He has authored three critically acclaimed studies in systematic theology, Beloved Community, Luther and the Beloved Community, and Divine Complexity.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801048999
  • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 485 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0801048990
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jul 2016
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Christ the Crisis of Metaphysics
  • Width: 159 mm


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