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The Concept of Divine Love in the Context of the God-World
Relationship addresses the significant and far-reaching theological
conflict over the nature of God's love, which is deeply rooted in
broader conflicts regarding divine ontology and the nature of the
God-world relationship. After engaging the traditional historical
theology of love and recent exemplars of competing and influential
conceptions of divine love, John C. Peckham seeks an alternative to
the impasse by an extensive inductive investigation of the entire
biblical canon in accordance with a final-form canonical approach
to systematic theology, offering an alternative model of divine
love that draws on the richness of the biblical text as canon and
holds considerable implications for the God-world relationship.
If God is all powerful and entirely good and loving, why is there
so much evil in the world? Based on a close canonical reading of
Scripture, this book offers a new approach to the challenge of
reconciling the Christian confession of a loving God with the
realities of suffering and evil. John Peckham offers a constructive
proposal for a theodicy of love that upholds both the sovereignty
of God and human freedom, showing that Scripture points toward a
framework for thinking about God's love in relation to the world.
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A C Peckham; Illustrated by Stephanie Russell; Edited by Mariko Irving
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This book offers a clear and constructive account of the nature and
attributes of God. It addresses the doctrine of God from
exegetical, historical, and constructive-theological perspectives,
bringing the biblical portrayal of God in relationship to the world
into dialogue with prominent philosophical and theological
questions. The book engages questions such as: Does God change?
Does God have emotions? Does God know the future? Is God entirely
good and loving? How can God be one and three? Chapters correspond
to the major metaphysical and moral attributes of God.
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
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
What is the role of canon and community respectively when it comes
to understanding and articulating Christian doctrine? Should the
church be the doctrinal arbiter in the twenty-first century? In
Canonical Theology John Peckham tackles this complex, ongoing
discussion by shedding light on issues surrounding the biblical
canon and the role of the community for theology and practice.
Peckham addresses the relationship of canon, community, and
theology by examining the nature of the biblical canon, the proper
relationship of Scripture and tradition, and the interpretation and
application of Scripture for theology. He lays out a compelling
canonical approach to systematic theology - including an
explanation of his method, a step-by-step account of how to
practice it, and an example of what theology derived from this
canonical approach looks like.
Readers' Choice Award Winner "For God so loved the world . . ." We
believe these words, but what do they really mean? Does God choose
to love, or does God love necessarily? Is God's love emotional?
Does the love of God include desire or enjoyment? Is God's love
conditional? Can God receive love from human beings? Attempts to
answer these questions have produced sharply divided pictures of
God's relationship to the world. One widely held position is that
of classical theism, which understands God as necessary,
self-sufficient, perfect, simple, timeless, immutable and
impassible. In this view, God is entirely unaffected by the world
and his love is thus unconditional, unilateral and arbitrary. In
the twentieth century, process theologians replaced classical
theism with an understanding of God as bound up essentially with
the world and dependent on it. In this view God necessarily feels
all feelings and loves all others, because they are included within
himself. In The Love of God, John Peckham offers a comprehensive
canonical interpretation of divine love in dialogue with, and at
times in contrast to, both classical and process theism. God's
love, he argues, is freely willed, evaluative, emotional and
reciprocal, given before but not without conditions. According to
Peckham's reading of Scripture, the God who loves the world is both
perfect and passible, both self-sufficient and desirous of
reciprocal relationships with each person, so that "whoever
believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life."
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