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The mystery of Almighty God is most properly an explication of the oneness of God, tying the faith of the church to the bedrock of Israel’s confession of the lord of the covenant, the lord of our Lord Jesus Christ. The doctrine of divine attributes, then, is set out as a reflection on Holy Scripture: the One God as omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, and all these as expressions of the Love...

narrative reading finds God’s predicate, Oneness, not in the Divine Nature but rather in the Divine activity ad extra. The Identity of this God is the One who acts in the world in this way, without aid or counterpart. It is hard to disagree with this reading—but we must go further. In the end, Holy Scripture reveals to us what kind of Being God is: Divine Oneness, we must say, is a metaphysical predicate. Now, we can only invite such a reading of Holy Scripture; but invite we must. We must make plausible
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