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The Living God: Systematic Theology, Volume One is unavailable, but you can change that!

Oden divides this volume into four parts. Part One discusses the name, nature and character of God. Part Two looks at the reality of God—concentrating on the debate of God’s existence and Triune personhood. Part Three looks at the work of God as creator and sustainer. Sin and evil are deliberated, as are natural causality and general and special providence. Part Four considers whether God can...

whom no mortal eye has ever seen or ever can see” (1 Tim. 6:16b, Phi.). Only the infinite God can fully comprehend the infinite (Augustine, On Chr. Doctrine I.6 ff., LLA, pp. 10 ff.; Hilary, Trin. I.6, NPNF 2 IX, p. 41). Must God then remain completely undefined? If so, this book must end here, for it is about God, and one cannot write a book about a Subject that is in every sense unknowable. Can God be defined? While acknowledging the divine ineffability, it is nonetheless possible to
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