This book on the doctrine of God forms volume 1 of the series Contours of Christian Theology. So vast a subject is obviously too demanding for a single volume, and inevitably much of the discussion in these pages has had to be curtailed, and some topics have been virtually omitted altogether, in order to keep within the dimensions of the series as a whole. One of the major difficulties with the subject is that, broadly speaking, there are two quite distinct aspects to it, both of which