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

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. It 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 Gods 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 Continentalphilosophy 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.