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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Knowing God | |
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| The Word Is Near You: Revelation, Scripture, and Tradition | |
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| Revelation | |
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| Can We Know God? | |
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| What Is Revelation? | |
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| Revelation as Feeling? | |
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| Natural Revelation | |
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| Holy Scripture | |
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| Scripture and the Apostolic Tradition | |
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| The Christian Canon | |
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| The Doctrine of Scripture | |
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| Tradition | |
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| The Roman Catholic View | |
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| The Protestant View | |
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| A Continuing Role for Tradition? | |
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| With All Your Heart and Mind: Reason, Experience, and Theology | |
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| Reason | |
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| Reason's Uses | |
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| Reason Abused | |
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| Experience | |
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| Experience Used | |
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| Experience Abused | |
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| Experience in Retrospect | |
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| Theology | |
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| Expanded Definition and Brief Justification | |
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| The Method of Theology | |
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| Objections to Theology from Ordinary Believers | |
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| Elements and Activities of Theology | |
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| What Fools Don't Know: The Existence of God | |
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| Asking the Right Question | |
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| A Misleading Question | |
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| The Right Question | |
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| Opposing Options | |
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| The Pagan Option | |
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| The Atheist Option | |
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| The Agnostic Option | |
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| God's Self-Demonstration | |
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| Arguments for God's Existence | |
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| Cosmological Arguments | |
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| The Moral Argument | |
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| The Ontological Argument | |
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| The Usefulness of the "Proofs" | |
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| What God's Existence Means | |
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| The Cosmic Meaning | |
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| The Existential Meaning | |
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| Where Being Means Loving: The Tri-unity of God | |
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| The Traditional Doctrine of the Trinity | |
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| The Triune Teaching in Scripture | |
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| Trinitarian Texts | |
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| Deity-Affirming Texts | |
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| Person-Distinguishing Texts | |
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| Texts That Unify the Persons | |
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| The Trinity in the Old Testament | |
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| Theological Examination of the Doctrine of the Trinity | |
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| The Gospel, the Economic, and the Immanent Trinity | |
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| Alternatives to the Doctrine of the Trinity | |
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| Coherence and Consistency | |
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| The Divine Attributes | |
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| Where Words Praise and Silence Adores: The Divine Attributes | |
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| Thinking the Incomprehensible and Speaking the Ineffable | |
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| An Unusual Question | |
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| The Analogy of Faith and the Divine Attributes | |
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| The Grammar of Attribute Language | |
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| Objections to the Traditional Grammar | |
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| Classifying the Attributes | |
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| The Unity of the Attributes | |
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| The Biblical Teaching on the Attributes | |
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| The Biblical Names of God | |
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| Statements of Direct Attribution | |
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| Statements about God's Actions | |
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| Narratives of God's Actions | |
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| The Praise of Israel and the Church | |
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| Summary of Biblical Data on the Attributes | |
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| Love Transcendent: Divine Love, Righteousness, and Holiness | |
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| God Is Love | |
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| Scriptural Teaching | |
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| Theology of the Love of God | |
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| Contrary Views: Is God's Love Really Free? | |
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| Response to the Critics: Yes, God's Love Really Is Free | |
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| The Amazing Nature of Divine Love | |
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| The Holiness of His Love | |
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| The Holy God in Scripture | |
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| Theology of God's Holiness | |
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| Domesticating the Holy | |
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| The Righteousness of God | |
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| Righteousness in Scripture | |
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| Theology of God's Righteousness | |
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| Questioning God's Righteousness | |
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| Love's Humility, Charity's Skill: Divine Grace, Mercy, Patience, and Wisdom | |
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| The Grace of God | |
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| The Gracious God of Scripture | |
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| Amazing Grace | |
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| The Unity of Grace with Holiness and Righteousness | |
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| Great Is His Mercy | |
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| The Merciful God of Scripture | |
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| Perspectives on God's Mercy | |
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| The Patience of God | |
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| God's Patience in Scripture | |
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| Theology of God's Patience | |
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| The Wisdom of God | |
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| Wisdom in Scripture | |
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| Theology of Wisdom | |
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| Where Life Lives Triumphant: Divine Freedom, Life, Spirituality, and Personhood | |
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| Divine Freedom | |
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| Scripture | |
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| The Tradition | |
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| Theology of Divine Freedom | |
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| The Living God | |
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| Life in Scripture | |
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| Theology of Divine Life | |
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| God Is Spirit | |
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| Spirit in Scripture | |
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| Theology of Spirit | |
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| The Tri-Personal God | |
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| Person in Scripture | |
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| Theology of Personhood | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Only "One and Only": Divine Uniqueness and Simplicity | |
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| Divine Uniqueness | |
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| The Teaching of Scripture | |
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| Theology of God's Uniqueness | |
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| Divine Simplicity | |
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| The Tradition | |
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| Theology of Divine Simplicity | |
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| A Christian Answer to the Simplicity Problem? | |
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| Where All Times Meet: Divine Omnipresence and Eternity | |
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| God's Omnipresence | |
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| The Scriptural Teaching | |
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| The Tradition | |
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| Theology of Omnipresence | |
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| The Eternal God | |
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| What Scripture Says | |
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| The Tradition | |
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| Theology of God's Eternity | |
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| The Relationship of Eternity and Time | |
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| Modes of Contemporaneity? | |
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| Where Knowing and Doing Converge: Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence | |
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| The All-Knowing God | |
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| Omniscience in Scripture | |
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| Theology of God's Knowledge | |
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| Does God Really Know All Things? | |
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| Yes, God Really Does Know All Things | |
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| Taking Sides | |
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| The Omnipotence of God | |
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| Divine Omnipotence in Scripture | |
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| The Traditional Teaching | |
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| Theology of Omnipotence | |
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| Is God's Power Really Unlimited? | |
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| Divine Omnipotence and Human Freedom | |
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| Love's Passionate Serenity: Divine Immutability, Impassibility, and Glory | |
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| The Immutability of God | |
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| Divine Immutability in Scripture | |
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| Immutability in the Tradition | |
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| Theology of Divine Immutability | |
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| Contemporary Objections to Immutability | |
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| In Defense of Immutability | |
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| The Impassibility of God | |
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| Why Impassibility? | |
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| Contemporary Critics of Impassibility | |
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| The Glory of God | |
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| Glory in Scripture | |
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| Theology of God's Glory | |
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| Does God Do Everything for His Own Glory? | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Or the Stones Will Cry Out: The Ethics of the Doctrine of God | |
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| The Divine Command | |
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| God's Command in Scripture | |
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| Christian Ethics as the Theology of God's Command | |
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| The Eternal Command of God | |
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| God's Command to Creatures | |
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| The Ethics of the Doctrine of God | |
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| Seek Him! | |
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| Follow Him! | |
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| Praise Him! | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Names and Subjects | |
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| Index of Scripture References | |