الهیات سیستماتیک خدای زنده | کتابخانه مجازی الفبا

Table of contents :
Preface ix
Introduction ^ 1
Credo: A Prologue to the Series Systematic Theology 11
PART I. The Living God 15
Chapter 1. The Naming of God 17
Whether God Is Revealed; Whether God Can Be Defined;
Whether God's Character Can Be Ascertained; Whether God Can Be Known by Negation or Analogy
Chapter 2. The Nature of God - 53
The Divine Sufficiency: The Uncreated One; The Unity of God;
The Infinity of God; The Living God; The Divine Majesty:
God's Way of Being Near; God's Way of Knowing; God's Way of Influencing; The Holy One Present in Our Midst
Chapter 3. The Character of God 83
The Divine Thou: God as Incomparably Personal; God Is Spirit;
The Freedom of God; The Divine Goodness: The Holiness of God; The Constant Goodness of God; The Compassion of God
PART II. The Reality of God 131
Chapter 4. Whether God Is 133
Whether the Existence of God Can Be Reasonably Argued;
Arguments from Order and Design; Arguments from Human- ity: Mind, Human Nature, and General Consent; Arguments from Change, Causality, Contingency, and Degrees of Being; Arguments from Conscience, Beauty, Pragmatic Results, and Congruity; Argument from the Idea of Perfect Being
Chapter 5. Whether God Is Triune 181
Experiential Roots of Trinitarian Reasoning; Whether Scrip- ture Teaches Triunity; Historical Triune Teaching and Its Al- ternatives; The Triune Structure of Christian Teaching
PART 111. The Work of God 225
Chapter 6. God the Creator and Creation 227
Biblical Views of God the Creator; The Triune Creator; The Goodness of Creatures; Consequent Issues of Creation Teaching
Chapter 7. God's Care for the World 270
The Meaning of Providence; Divine Preservation and Cooper- ation with Natural Causality; Divine Governance of the World; Problems of Providence: Fate, Sin, and Evil; Biblical Paradigms of Divine Care for the World; General and Special Providence
PART IV. The Study of God 317
Chapter 8. Whether God Can Be Studied 321
Whether the Deliberate Study of God Is Possible or Necessary to Faith; Whether Revelation Requires Scripture, Tradition, Ex- perience, and Reason; Whether Church Tradition Is an Au- thoritative Source for the Study of God; Whether the Study of God Is a Science; Whether the Study of God Requires a Spe- cial Temperament; Whether the Study of God Is an Academic Discipline; The Study of Religion and the Study of God
Chapter 9. The Reasoning of Revelation 375
Must the Study of God Appeal to Reason? Reason and Certi- tude; What Purpose Does Reason Serve in the Study of God?
Whether Faith Flas Reasons That Reason Does Not Know
Postlude: On Theo-Comic Perception
Abbreviations
Name Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index
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