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This is the second volume to appear in the American edition of Professor Berkouwer's Studies in Dogmatics. Like its companions, it stands independently of the series as well as forming part of a larger theological whole. Like them, too, this study of the providence of God is a fine example of Reformed theology being defended and developed through interaction with a wide range of both past and...

God, he says, is not “might in itself.” Such a “might in itself,” such an unqualified power or sovereignty means chaos. “We could not,” he says, “better describe and define the devil than by trying to think this idea of a self-based, free, sovereign ability.”5 Might in itself is the revolution of nihilism, against which God says No! God’s power is founded in justice, in His justice as Father of His Son, as Father who in Himself is Love. His might is the might of free love in Jesus Christ. It is
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