The Personal God of Classical Theism
Book chapter
Stump, Eleonore. (2019). The Personal God of Classical Theism. In In Hazony, Yoram and Johnson, Dru (Ed.). The Question of God's Perfection pp. 65-81 Brill - Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387980_006
Authors | Stump, Eleonore |
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Editors | Hazony, Yoram and Johnson, Dru |
Abstract | It is common among contemporary theologians and philosophers to suppose that the God of the Bible is radically different from the God of the philosophers. The God of the philosophers is generally understood to be the God of classical theism, whose standard divine attributes are those paradigmatically given by the great medieval philosophers of the three monotheisms, Averroes, Maimonides, and Aquinas: simplicity, eternity, immutability. By contrast, the God portrayed in the Bible generally is very human. When Genesis says that human beings are made in the image of God, the stories of God in the Bible bear out the claim. By contrast with these biblical representations of God, to many people the God of classical theism seems unresponsive, unengaged, and entirely inhuman. In this paper, I argue against the supposed inconsistency and try to show that the God of classical theism is the engaged, personally present, responsive God of the Bible. |
Keywords | Philosophy; Theology; Philosophy; Religion; Christianity; Biblical Theology |
Page range | 65-81 |
Year | 01 Jan 2019 |
Book title | The Question of God's Perfection |
Publisher | Brill - Rodopi |
Place of publication | Netherlands |
Edition | 8 |
Series | Philosophy of Religion - World Religions |
ISBN | 978-90-04-38795-9 |
ISSN | 2210-481X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387980_006 |
Web address (URL) | https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004387980/BP000007.xml |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Scholarly |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
20 Nov 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 17 Jan 2024 |
Additional information | Copyright 2019 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. |
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