The Christian idea of God
By: by H. Maldwyn Hughes
Publisher: C. Scribner
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: God
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224).
Table of contents: title: 1. In the beginning-God; title: Our task; title: Worth of a developing idea to be measured by its end, not by its beginning; title: Origin of idea of God; title: The idea and reality. Is there a God? Thomas Aquinas and demonstrative proof; title: Kant and the "proofs": proofs fall short of complete demonstration. Do not fall within the scope of Christian theology. But lend rational support to faith; title: Cosmological argument; title: Teleological argument; title: Ontological argument; title: Moral argument; title: Aesthetic argument; title: This kind of proof judged sufficient in other departments of knowledge; title: Demonstrative proofs would have little religious value; title: The Christian knowledge of God; title: Revelation; title: Natural religion and revelation; title: The Deists; title: All religion is revelation; title: Revelation through human personality; title: Outstanding personalities; title: Judaism; title: Christianity; title: The verification of revelation; title: Challenge of the new psychology; title: Reply; title: 2. The Christian idea of God and its development; title: 3. The Bible more concerned to ask, "What is God like?" then "Is there a God?" The scriptures as a record of revelation; title: Expanding revelation; title: 4. The wholly other; title: God and the world; title: Immanence and transcendence; title: The Bible and transcendence; title: 5. God manifest; title: Plutarch; title: Christianity; title: Revelation: incarnation: fellowship with the Spirit; title: 6. The sovereign-fatherhood of God argument; title: The sovereignty and fatherhood of God; title: Sovereignty in the Old Testament; title: In later Judaism; title: In the New Testament; title: Teaching of Jesus; title: St. Paul; title: Sovereignty cannot be rightly interpreted apart from Fatherhood; title: Fatherhood in the Old Testament; title: In later Judaism; title: In the teaching of Jesus; title: St. Paul; title: Universal fatherhood and universal son ship; title: Fatherhood and sovereignty; title: Sovereignty and omnipotence; title: 7. The grace of God; title: Grace came through Jesus Christ; title: Theological rapprochements; title: Twofold sense of grace; title: The synoptic gospels; title: St. Paul; title: 8. The Holy Trinity; title: The Catholic faith: reason and revelation. Aquinas; title: 9. Does God suffer; title: An ancient question-raised anew in the light of th