thought.12 This does not keep Pinnock, any more than Harnack, from reading Scripture through the lens of modern thought, especially Hegel, in addition to Teilhard de Chardin and Alfred North Whitehead, a debt that Pinnock readily acknowledges.13 In fact, he suggests that “modern culture … is closer to the biblical view than classical theism.”14 With these challenges in mind, we take up the attributes in question. As human beings, we are complex and compound creatures. That is,