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Christian Faith: A New Translation and Critical Edition, Volumes I & II is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christian Faith is one of the most important works of Christian theology ever written. The author, known as the “father of theological liberalism,” correlates the entirety of Christian doctrine to the human experience of and consciousness of God. A work of exhaustive scholarship written in deep sympathy with the ministry of congregations and church bodies, Christian Faith has inspired admiration...

domain of finite being. Moreover, this will is certainly the absolute26 divine will, because nothing conditions that will. Accordingly, all that is particular would be conditionally willed by God, but the whole, viewed as one, would be absolutely willed by God. Suppose, on the other hand, that, at some point, we lift some particular thing from the whole interconnected process of nature and refer to divine will in this respect. Then we would have to say the following. First, to the extent that we
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