God Is Impassible and Impassioned
Title | God Is Impassible and Impassioned PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Lister |
Publisher | Crossway |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2012-11-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433532441 |
Modern theologians are focused on the doctrine of divine impassibility, exploring the significance of God’s emotional experience and most especially the question of divine suffering. Professor Rob Lister speaks into the issue, outlining the history of the doctrine in the views of influential figures such as Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther, while carefully examining modernity’s growing rejection of impassibility and the subsequent evangelical response. With an eye toward holistic synthesis, this book proposes a theological model based upon fresh insights into the historical, biblical, and theological dimensions of this important doctrine.
Impassible and Impassioned
Title | Impassible and Impassioned PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Glenn Lister |
Publisher | |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | God |
ISBN |
Untangling Emotions
Title | Untangling Emotions PDF eBook |
Author | J. Alasdair Groves |
Publisher | Crossway |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2019-03-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433557851 |
How do you feel about how you feel? Our emotions are complex. Some of us seem able to ignore our feelings, while others feel controlled by them. But most of us would admit that we don't always know what to do with how we feel. The Bible teaches us that our emotions are an indispensable part of what makes us human—and play a crucial role in our relationships with God and others. Exploring how God designed emotions for our good, this book shows us how to properly engage with our emotions—even the more difficult ones like fear, anger, shame, guilt, and sorrow—so we can better understand what they reveal about our hearts and handle them wisely in everyday moments.
God without Parts
Title | God without Parts PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Dolezal |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2011-11-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1621891097 |
The doctrine of divine simplicity has long played a crucial role in Western Christianity's understanding of God. It claimed that by denying that God is composed of parts Christians are able to account for his absolute self-sufficiency and his ultimate sufficiency as the absolute Creator of the world. If God were a composite being then something other than the Godhead itself would be required to explain or account for God. If this were the case then God would not be most absolute and would not be able to adequately know or account for himself without reference to something other than himself. This book develops these arguments by examining the implications of divine simplicity for God's existence, attributes, knowledge, and will. Along the way there is extensive interaction with older writers, such as Thomas Aquinas and the Reformed scholastics, as well as more recent philosophers and theologians. An attempt is made to answer some of the currently popular criticisms of divine simplicity and to reassert the vital importance of continuing to confess that God is without parts, even in the modern philosophical-theological milieu.
Divine Impassibility
Title | Divine Impassibility PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Matz |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2019-08-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830866620 |
Does God suffer? Does God experience emotions? Does God change? This Spectrum Multiview volume brings together four theologians who make a case for their own view—ranging from a traditional affirmation of divine impassibility (the idea that God does not suffer) to the position that God is necessarily and intimately affected by creation—and then each contributor responds to the others' views.
The Triune Story
Title | The Triune Story PDF eBook |
Author | Robert W. Jenson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2019-07-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0190917008 |
At the time of his death in the autumn of 2017, Robert W. Jenson was arguably America's foremost theologian. Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, much of Jenson's thought was dedicated to the theological description of how Scripture should be read-what has come to be called theological interpretation. In this rapidly expanding field of scholarship, Jenson has had an inordinate impact. Despite its importance, study of Jenson's theology of scriptural interpretation has lagged, due in large part to the longevity of his career and volume of his output. In this book, all of Jenson's writings on Scripture and its interpretation have been collected for the first time. Here readers will be able to see the evolution of Jenson's thought on this topic, as well as the scope and intensity of his late-period engagement with it. Where other twentieth-century thinkers rely on non-theological, secular methods of scriptural investigation, Jenson is willing to let go of "respectability" for the sake of a truly Christian theological interpretation. The result is a genuinely free, intellectually invigorating exercise in reading and theory from one of the greatest theologians in the last century.
The Doctrine of God
Title | The Doctrine of God PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Peckham |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019-09-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567677850 |
John C. Peckham introduces and engages with major questions about God's nature and how God relates to the world. Does God change? Does God have emotions? Can God do anything? Does God know the future? Does God always attain what God desires? And is God entirely good? This textbook provides a clear and concise overview of the issues involved in these and other questions, exploring prominent contemporary approaches to the main issues relative to how to conceive of the God-world relationship within Christian theology. In so doing, Peckham surveys a range of live options regarding each of the primary questions, briefly considering where each falls within the spectrum of the Christian tradition and providing clear and readily understandable explanations of the technical issues involved. The result is a stimulating survey of the most prominent options in Christian theology relative to divine attributes and the God-world relationship, offered in an accessible format for students. Designed for classroom use this volume includes the following features: - study questions for each chapter - suggestions for further reading for each chapter - glossary