‘God, the Father Almighty’: A Theological Excursus
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Peer-reviewed
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McFarland, IA
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jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pThe confession of ‘God, the Father almighty’ in the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds can be interpreted as offering a progressively more focused characterization of the First Person of the Trinity, such that ‘Father’ clarifies the meaning of ‘God’, and the force of ‘almighty’ is controlled by the meaning of ‘Father’. The results of such an exegesis accentuate divine transcendence in a way that raises questions about theological claims to natural knowledge of God. More specifically, they suggest that the very comprehensiveness of God's relationship to the world implied by divine almightiness blocks any direct line of inference from creation to Creator.</jats:p>
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5004 Religious Studies, 5005 Theology, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies
Journal Title
International Journal of Systematic Theology
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1463-1652
1468-2400
1468-2400
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Wiley