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Control Numbermuse65148
Control Number IdentifierMdBmJHUP
Date and Time of Latest Transaction20180112030014.0
General Information180109r20182017mnu o 00 0 eng d
International Standard Book Number9781506424835
 9781506424828
System Control Number(OCoLC)1019656179
Cataloging SourceMdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP
Library of Congress Call NumberBT148 .B374 2017
Main Entry - Personal NameBarrett, Jordan P., author.
Title StatementDivine Simplicity [electronic resource] : A Biblical and Trinitarian Account / Jordan P. Barrett
Physical Description1 online resource (1 PDF (xiii, 228 pages).)
Series StatementEmerging scholars
General NoteRevision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Wheaton College (Illinois), 2016
 Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
Formatted Contents NoteIntroduction -- Divine simplicity in contemporary theology -- Early Christian approaches to divine simplicity -- Divine simplicity in medieval theology -- Divine simplicity from the Reformation to Karl Barth -- Biblical roots of divine simplicity -- A trinitarian account of divine simplicity
Summary, Etc.The Christian church has consistently confessed that the triune God of the gospel is simple and therefore beyond composition. The various divine attributes do not represent parts of God that, when combined, make up God's nature. However, what was once part of the theological tradition from Irenaeus to Jonathan Edwards can now be said to have nothing to do with Christian theology.Divine Simplicity engages the recent critics and addresses one of their major concerns: that the doctrine of divine simplicity is not a biblical teaching. By analyzing the use of Scripture by key theologians from the early church to Karl Barth, Barrett finds that divine simplicity developed in order to respond to theological errors (e.g., Eunomianism) and to avoid misreading Scripture. Through close attention to Scripture, the work also argues that divine simplicity has two biblical roots: the names of God and the indivisible operations of the Trinity ad extra. After clarifying its biblical origins, the volume then explains how divine simplicity can be rearticulated by following a formal analogy from the doctrine of the Trinity--the analogia diversitatis (analogy of diversity)--in which the divine attributes are identical to the divine essence but are not identical to each other
Subject Added Entry - Uniform TitleBible -- Theology
Subject Added Entry - Topical TermTrinity
 God (Christianity) -- Simplicity -- History of doctrines
Index Term - Genre/FormElectronic books
 Electronic books. -- local
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