Contents

Acknowledgments
Publication Credits
Preface

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Part I. The One God

1. The Perfect Oneness of God

1a. The Divine Oneness in Holy Scripture
2. The Divine Oneness as Foundational Perfection
2a. The Divine Oneness in Scholastic Theology
2b. The Divine Oneness in the Kantian Tradition

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3. The Perfection of the One LORDs Hiddenness: His Omnipresence

3a. Divine Hiddenness and Atheism
3b. Divine Hiddenness and Holy Scripture

3c. An Excursus on Theological Compatibilism and Epistemology
3d. Divine Invisibility in the New Testament

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Part II. The Omnipresent One

Part III. The Omnipotent One

4. The Perfection of the One LORDs Holy Humility: His Omnipotence

Section I: Divine Omnipotence A Se

4a. The Question of Divine Power

4b. Divine Omnipotence in the Tradition


4c. Divine Omnipotence in Positive, Scriptural Idiom

4d. Divine Omnipotence as Subject and Object

4e. Divine Omnipotence and Creaturely Suffering:


the Prophet Jeremiah
Section II: Divine Omnipotence Ad Extra

4f. Divine Omnipotence as Personal Relation

4g. The Book of Numbers

4h. The Mutable Immutability of the Omnipotent One

4i. The Book of Genesis

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Part IV. The Omniscient One

5. The Perfection of the One LORDs Spiritual

Nature: His Eternal Omniscience

5a. The Omniscient Ones Perfect Knowledge

5b. The Divine Knowledge of Evil

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6. Methodological and Transcendental Questions in Divine Omniscience

6a. The Problem of Grounding

6b. The Problem of Representation

6c. The Representative

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7. The Doctrine of Illumination

7a. Compatibilism in the Doctrine of Omniscience

7b. The Transcendental Relation

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Part V. Final Things

8. The Perfection of Divine Love

9. The Divine Perfections and the Exegesis of Holy Scripture

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Index

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