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Has God Said? Scripture, the Word of God, and the Crisis of Theological Authority is unavailable, but you can change that!

Has God said? Has God actually spoken, declared himself and his purposes to us? Historically the Christian faith has affirmed God's redemptive, revelatory speaking as historical, contentful, redemptive, centrally in Jesus Christ and, under Christ and by the Spirit, in the text of Holy Scripture. But in the past three centuries developments in Western culture have created a crisis in relation to...

The third level, the highest level of understanding, Spinoza calls “intuitive knowledge.” It proceeds from the second level, from an adequate idea of some attribute of God to the adequate knowledge of particular things.11 The point seems to be that Spinoza conceived of the logical deduction of the essential and eternal structure of Nature from the divine attributes as providing the necessary framework for seeing all things. The whole of Nature is concretely one great system expressing, and at the
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