The Hexagon of Heresy: A Historical and Theological Study of Definitional Divine Simplicity
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Have you ever wondered how we got here? Have you ever wondered how Western civilization arrived at the brink of suicide? How did a thoroughly Christian culture give rise to the very ideas that seek to kill it? Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Western civilization has never been conquered from without; it is being conquered from within. How do philosophies like deism, fatalism, Marxism, atheism, and secular humanism arise from within the confines of the Christian theological culture that is Western civilization? Also, why are there always exactly two sides to every fundamental disagreement? Why is it either liberal or conservative, sovereignty or freedom, rational or volitional, meticulous order or complete chaos, Catholic or Protestant, Lutheran or Reformed, God or humanity, the one or the many? Why is there never a third option, or even an option that can bypass the dichotomy? This book attempts to provide a framework that seeks to begin answering some of those questions. The answer may be something very ancient and almost forgotten in today's world. Theological decisions were made long ago that planted the seeds for the destruction of both church and civilization. What are they? Read and find out.
“From time to time our theological shibboleths are shaken to the core, and after the immediate panic, we are better for the challenge. Gifford’s work is a shibboleth-shaking work. Believe him or not, accept his argument or reject it; either way, this work will make you think long and hard about the very foundations of your systematic theology.”
— Myk Habets, Laidlaw College
“In The Hexagon of Heresy, Jim Gifford proposes that a strong view of divine simplicity, derived from outside of biblical revelation, formed a paradigm which resulted in the christological heresies and continues to distort Western Christian theology. His thesis is complex and controversial but if he is correct, then his work serves as a call to rerun to Scripture and Jesus for shaping all Christian doctrine.”
—Adam Harwood, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
“Seldom does a truly groundbreaking book escape controversy. The Hexagon of Heresy will likely achieve both. If Gifford’s thesis is correct, then this volume will be a bombshell in the theological world. Significant, even titanic, ramifications for theology, and especially Reformed theology, ensue. This is not a book you can afford to neglect. Take up and read.”
—David L. Allen, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary
“Athanasius began his defense of the incarnation with a discussion of creation because he realized that the two doctrines were inexorably linked. Gifford argues that the Western church’s failure to follow Athanasius’s lead has resulted in many of the theological and practical woes that modern culture endures today. Provocative and wide-ranging, the Hexagon of Heresy demonstrates the problems inherent with the neo-Platonic definition of divine simplicity.”
—Kenneth Keathley, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Title: The Hexagon of Heresy: A Historical and Theological Study of Definitional Divine Simplicity
- Author: James Gifford
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666754322, 9781666754315, 9781666754308, 1666754323, 1666754315, 1666754307
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666754322
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-22T07:31:24Z
James D. Gifford Jr. is an assistant professor in the Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University. He is the author of Perichoretic Salvation: Union with Christ as a Third Type of Perichoresis (2011).