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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...

itself. Deity is itself immutable, impassible, yet in such a surpassing manner that mutability and passibility are caught up in its own Perfection. Deity is Goodness itself: all the Attributes of Divine Objectivity are ethical, through and through. For this reason alone, every property of Deity is most properly called a Perfection. In all this, and beyond all this, Deity is Mystery: hidden, invisible, transcendent Mystery. The Objectivity of God closes the intellect up in wonder. The richness of
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