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A Christian’s understanding of God is crucial to how he or she views everything else. In The Doctrine of God: A Global Introduction, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen surveys what the church has traditionally thought about God. He also examines what the church today, both in North America and around the world, thinks about God and shows how the insights of Christians from various cultures can enrich an...

the fourth century. His concerns were also christological and soteriological: If the Son is a creature, then he is a creature like any other creature and himself in need of salvation rather than capable of helping human beings become deified, become like God. Only God can save. Thus, if Jesus is not God incarnate, he is not able to save humans.65 Athanasius also wondered whether Arianism undermined the Christian doctrine of God by implying that the divine triad is not eternal, which would lead to
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