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The Battle for the Trinity: The Debate over Inclusive God-Language is unavailable, but you can change that!

In The Battle for the Trinity, Donald G. Bloesch tackles the controversial issues surrounding the language we use to describe God, and how these are among most divisive issues facing the church in the twentieth century. Should God be addressed as Father, Mother, or Parent? Should Jesus be referred to primarily as the Son of God or the Child of God? Did God really reveal himself definitively in...

can conceive. It reminds us that we are separated from God both by ontological fate and by historical guilt. It is primarily because of our sin that we find God unapproachable and inaccessible. God is Wholly Other because he is the Holy One in whose presence we would be consumed as by a fire if we were not covered by the righteousness of Christ through justifying faith (cf. Is 6:4–7). The metaphor of Wholly Other was also used by Rudolf Otto2 and is anticipated by comparable expressions in the heritage
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