Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 3: The Divine Essence and Attributes
Overview
Volume Three, The Divine Essence and Attributes, examines post-Reformation theology on the unity of God’s existence, God’s divine essence and attributes, and divine will. Included is an analysis of the doctrine of God from the twelfth to the early eighteenth century.
Top Highlights
“Among the divine attributes one stands forth as a governing concept which determines the way in which theology discusses the attributes and their relation to the divine essence: the divine simplicity. Here we encounter the basic question of the difference between God and his creatures and of the relation of universals to God.” (Page 38)
“Leaving aside differences of formulation found throughout the tradition, the basic doctrinal point is plain: in God there is an essential or substantial simplicity but there are distinctions—and these distinctions can be represented on the analogy of distinctions in the intellect.” (Page 58)
“The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture.” (Page 99)
“As is often the case with Barth’s reviews and critiques of the tradition, his argument is directed more toward the justification of his own position than toward a genuine understanding of the past.” (Page 155)
“In Anselm, as in the fathers, simplicity serves to safeguard trinitarianism from tritheistic implications” (Page 43)
- Title: Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 3: The Divine Essence and Attributes
- Author: Richard Muller
- Series: Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2003
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Reformed Church › Doctrines--16th century; Reformed Church › Doctrines--17th century; Reformed Church › Doctrines--18th century; Doctrine of God › Divine attributes; Protestant scholasticism
- ISBNs: 9781441255341, 9780801022944, 1441255346, 0801022940
- Resource ID: LLS:PSTRFMREFDG03
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:29:55Z
Richard A. Muller is the P.J. Zondervan Professor of Historical Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.