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God the Almighty: Power, Wisdom, Holiness, Love is unavailable, but you can change that!

God is variously portrayed as vulnerable (Jürgen Moltmann, Clark Pinnock), as lover (Norman Pittenger, Ronald Goetz), as friend (Alfred North Whitehead, Sallie McFague) and as empowerer (Rosemary Radford Ruether). Bloesch agrees that many of these proposals have some biblical merit. But what is lacking, he argues, “is a strong affirmation of the holiness and almightiness of God.” In this volume,...

While Karl Barth included holiness under the rubric of divine loving, he nevertheless sought to hold the two together in a paradoxical relationship. “The holiness of God consists in the unity of His judgment with His grace. God is holy because His grace judges and His judgment is gracious.”12 For Barth God’s holiness is ultimately in the service of his love, which emanates from the depth of God’s being. Barth associated the Father with holiness, the Son with mercy and the Spirit with love. Even
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