Within the Love of God: Essays on the Doctrine of God

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The doctrine of God is central to theology for it determines the way in which other regions of Christian doctrine are articulated. However, discussion of this topic in its own right has tended to be occluded by recent attention to divine passibility and to the doctrine of the Trinity. This collection of specially commissioned essays presents major treatments of key themes in the doctrine of God. Within the Love of God includes invigorating discussions of biblical and non-biblical sources for the doctrine of God, and the section on Metaphysics and the Doctrine of God offers rigorous analyses of some of the most important conceptual questions arising in contemporary theological debate about the being and nature of God, and God's relations to the world. The final section of the book on God and Humanity will be highly relevant to scholars working in the fields of Continental philosophy of religion, theological anthropology, moral and political theology, on interfaith relations, on theology and literature, or who are interested in the impact of contemporary science on the doctrine of God. This volume brings together a team of internationally distinguished scholars from a wide range of theological, philosophical, and religious perspectives, and it will stimulate fresh thinking and new debate about this most central of topics in Christian theology. Foreword • Robert Ellis Acknowledgements Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Essaying the Doctrine of God • Anthony Clarke and Andrew Moore Part I. Sources of the Doctrine of God 1. God, the World, and Wisdom • John Barton 2. The ‘Rule of Law of Love’ • HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad 3. ‘In the Beginning was the Word . . . ’: On Language and Presence • John E. Colwell 4. Experience and the Doctrine of God • Andrew Moore Part II. Metaphysics and the Doctrine of God 5. Apathōs Epathen: Patristic Reflection on God, Suffering,and the Cross • Frances Young 6. Non ex aequo: God’s Relation to Creatures • John Webster 7. The Passibility or Impassibility of God: Answers to J. K. Mozley’s ‘Six Necessary Questions’ • Jürgen Moltmann 8. ‘Who Can Count How Many Crosses?’: Paul Fiddes on Salvation • Stephen R. Holmes 9. Freedom, Necessity, and Suffering in God • Keith Ward 10. Impassionedness and ‘So-called Classical Theism’ • Paul Helm Part III. God and Humanity 11. Eschatology and Human Knowledge of God • Judith Wolfe 12. Sublimation and Sublime Meaning: Pain and Passion in an Infinite, Intellectual Love of God • Pamela Sue Anderson 13. Self, World, and Others: Where is Wisdom to be Found? • Oliver Davies 14. Creation and Ethics: On the Legitimacy and Limitation of Appeals to ‘Nature’ in Christian Moral Reasoning • Bernd Wannenwetsch 15. ‘There is at Most One God’: Jewish–Christian–Muslim Exchange on the Issue of God • David B. Burrell, C.S.C. 16. ‘For thine is the Kingdom & the Power & the Glory & not Caesars or Satans Amen’: William Blake, Politics, and Theology • Christopher Rowland Select Bibliography of Works by Paul S. Fiddes Index of Holy Scripture Index of Names and Subjects