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Wolfhart Pannenberg is widely regarded as one of the foremost theologians in the world today. Respected by his peers and critics, Pannenberg’s treatise on the dogmatics of Christianity is seen as one of greatest achievements in twentieth-century theology and a timeless work that will continue to challenge, teach, and ignite theological studies for decades to come.

of fatherly care in particular is taken over in what the OT has to say about God’s fatherly concern for Israel. The sexual definition of the father’s role plays no part. A mark of Israel’s faith from the very outset is that the God who elected the patriarchs, the God of the exodus and Sinai, has no female partner. To bring sexual differentiation into the understanding of God would mean polytheism; it was thus ruled out for the God of Israel. Perhaps this is why the idea of God as Father came only
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