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Theoretical-Practical Theology, Volume 2: Faith in the Triune God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Petrus van Mastricht’s Theoretical-Practical Theology presents one of the most comprehensive methods of treating Christian doctrine. In it, Mastricht treats every theological topic according to a four-part approach: exegetical, dogmatic, elenctic, and practical. As a body of divinity, it combines a rigorous, scholastic treatment of doctrine with the pastoral aim of preparing people to live for...

6. Furthermore, sixth, we must conceive the divine attributes as divine perfections, and yet in such a way that every imperfection that usually attends such properties in creatures is carefully removed from the analogous attributes of God, and the remaining perfection is conceived with the greatest eminence, that is, according to the ways of causality, negation, and eminence, which we already demonstrated as the ways for investigating the divine attributes.9 7. In addition, seventh, it must be noted
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