Volume 1, The Doctrine of God
Katherine Sonderegger
Fortress Press
Minneapolis
Volume 1, The Doctrine of God
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Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright (c) 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Cover image: Margaret Adams Parker, “Fiat Lux,” Woodcut Print, 2003.
Cover design: Laurie Ingram
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Print ISBN: 978-1-4514-8284-3
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4514-9665-9
§1. The Perfect Oneness of God
§1a. The Divine Oneness in Holy Scripture
§2. The Divine Oneness as Foundational Perfection
§2a. The Divine Oneness in Scholastic Theology
§2b. The Divine Oneness in the Kantian Tradition
§3. The Perfection of the One LORD’s Hiddenness: His Omnipresence
§3a. Divine Hiddenness and Atheism
§3b. Divine Hiddenness and Holy Scripture
§3c. An Excursus on Theological Compatibilism and Epistemology
§3d. Divine Invisibility in the New Testament
§4. The Perfection of the One LORD’s Holy Humility: His Omnipotence
Section I: Divine Omnipotence A Se
§4a. The Question of Divine Power
§4b. Divine Omnipotence in the Tradition
§4c. Divine Omnipotence in Positive, Scriptural Idiom
§4d. Divine Omnipotence as Subject and Object
§4e. Divine Omnipotence and Creaturely Suffering: the Prophet Jeremiah
Section II: Divine Omnipotence Ad Extra
§4f. Divine Omnipotence as Personal Relation
§4h. The Mutable Immutability of the Omnipotent One
§5. The Perfection of the One LORD’s Spiritual Nature: His Eternal Omniscience
§5a. The Omniscient One’s Perfect Knowledge
§5b. The Divine Knowledge of Evil
§6. Methodological and Transcendental Questions in Divine Omniscience
§6b. The Problem of Representation
§7. The Doctrine of Illumination
§7a. Compatibilism in the Doctrine of Omniscience
§7b. The Transcendental Relation
§8. The Perfection of Divine Love
§9. The Divine Perfections and the Exegesis of Holy Scripture
Theology awakens a grateful heart. As I ready this first volume of my Systematics, I am keenly aware of the deep debts of gratitude I owe, joyfully owe, over many seasons of my life. The life of faith begins and is sustained by the quiet doctors of the Church: Sunday school teachers, youth group leaders, deacons in every walk ...
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About Systematic Theology: Volume 1, The Doctrine of GodThe mystery of Almighty God is most properly an explication of the oneness of God, tying the faith of the church to the bedrock of Israel’s confession of the lord of the covenant, the lord of our Lord Jesus Christ. The doctrine of divine attributes, then, is set out as a reflection on Holy Scripture: the One God as omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, and all these as expressions of the Love who is God. Systematic theology must make bold claims about its knowledge and service of this One lord: the Invisible God must be seen and known in the visible. In this way, God and God’s relation to creation are distinguished—but not separated—from Christology, the doctrine of perfections from redemption. The lord God will be seen as compatible with creatures, and the divine perfections express formally distinct and unique relations to the world. This systematic theology, then, begins from the treatise De Deo Uno and develops the dogma of the Trinity as an expression of divine unicity, on which will depend creation, Christology, and ecclesiology. In the end, the transcendent beauty who is God can be known only in worship and praise. |
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