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Mar 13, 2021 · We could summarize the whole book, as teaching [1] who God is and [2] how we can relate to him. The outline of the whole book, could be summarized: I. The hows and whys of knowing God; II. The attributes of God; and III. Some primary benefits of being God’s child.
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Packer had little patience for those who would speak of the Christian life or spirituality without regard for the centrality of God. For there to be life-giving heat in the affections of the heart, there must first be biblical light imparted to the mind. This was Packer’s way of reminding us that a biblically informed, cognitive grasp of the revela...
What exactly does knowing Godmean and entail? It begins, notes Packer, with listening to God’s written and infallible word as the Holy Spirit sheds light on the nature of our Creator and Redeemer. But listening is only the start. After listening follows the joyful and voluntary application of truths about God to how we live and think and to what we...
No one book, nor all the books in the universe, could ever hope to identify and define every attribute of our infinite God. So, Packer limits himself to a focus on those characteristics of God that are especially highlighted in Scripture and are essential for every Christian seeking to mature in their knowledge of him. He echoes, once again, the se...
Those who have not yet taken a deep dive into Knowing Godshould know that Packer never anticipated its effect on the Christian world. In the preface to the 1993 edition, he marvels that it had sold more than one million copies and had been translated into more than a dozen languages — and that nearly thirty years ago. So much more could be said abo...
Oct 6, 2023 · In this section, I discuss some salient aspects of how ‘God’ is understood in Advaita Vedānta. I cannot attempt a comprehensive overview, so I instead offer a summary of the aspects of the view that are most relevant to the present article.
what God is. To know God it is necessary to escape from the finite and ascend into heaven. The way of doing this was developed by an anonymous writer, who lived in the 5th-6th century AD, referred to as Pseudo-Dionysius. He wrote several books charting the stages of the negative way (Via Negative)
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Summary. The Quest for the historical Jesus has progressed through at least four periods of development of seeking to understand the relationship between the historical figure of Jesus of Nazareth and the Jesus we meet in Scripture. The First Quest, reaching back to the 17th century, attempted to distinguish between and describe the Christ of ...
Aug 5, 2020 · Abstract. The feminist theological and historical work of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza has been met with diverging responses. For feminist biblical scholars, Schüssler Fiorenza is essential ...
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Sep 9, 2024 · We’ve complied a list of 15 of God’s attributes; some are what theologians call “incommunicable” (qualities possessed by God alone) and others are “communicable” (qualities that both God and we possess, though only he possesses them perfectly).
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