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The God Who Acts in History: The Significance of Sinai is unavailable, but you can change that!

Did the decisive event in the history of Israel even happen? The Bible presents a living God who speaks and acts, and whose speaking and acting is fundamental to his revelation of himself. God’s action in history may seem obvious to many Christians, but modern philosophy has problematized the idea. Today, many theologians often use the Bible to speak of God while, at best, remaining agnostic...

and salvation.”12 Gunton follows Barth in making the Trinity the foundation for his reflections upon God. For Barth, “the account of the Trinity in fact takes the place long taken by natural theology.”13 Only the doctrine of the Trinity, for Gunton, could make the space for a creature other than God while God remains intimately engaged with that creature. There are different types of trinitarian thinking and Gunton discusses that of three: Augustine, the Cappadocian Fathers, and Irenaeus. For Gunton
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