No One Like Him: The Doctrine of God Book

	Foreword	xvii
	Introduction	xxi
	Preface	xxv
	List of Abbreviations	xxvix
Chapter 1	Introduction	31
Part 1	Concepts Of God
Chapter 2	God--The Very Idea	37
	What Sort of Reality is God/Does God Have?
	God as Mental Projection
	God as Being-Itself
	God as a Being
	God Without or Beyond Being
	What Role(s) Does God Play in Our Universe?
	Biblical Images, Motifs, and Metaphors for God
	The Transcendence and Immanence of God
	Several Models of Christian Theism
	Three Understandings of the Metaphysics of Christian Theology
	How Should We Understand Language about God?
Chapter 3	What Happens to God in Contemporary Thought?	81
	What Is Modernity?
	Human Consciousness ("The Subjective Turn")
	Knowledge, Truth, Objectivity, and Theory of Meaning
	Naturalism
	Human Freedom and Individuality
	The Goodness of Human Nature
	Science and Progress
	What Is Postmodernity?
	Postmodern Epistemology
	Naturalism, But ...
	Human Freedom in Community
	The Goodness of Human Nature!?
	Science and Progress
	God in Contemporary Thought
	Contemporary Theologies in the Modern Mindset
	Contemporary Theologies in the Postmodern Mindset
Chapter 4	Process Theology	149
	Backgrounds of Process Theology
	Developments in Science
	Attack on Classical Theism
	Philosophical Background
	Theological/Religious Climate of the Times
	Major Concepts in Process Thought
	Key Definitions
	Central Concepts
	Assessment of Process Theology
	Contributions of Process Theology
	Problems with Process Theology
Part 2	The Being And Nature Of God
Chapter 5	The Existence and Being of God	183
	Introduction to Theistic Proofs
	The Ontological Argument
Anselm I
Anselm II
	The Cosmological Argument
	Causal Arguments
	Contingency Arguments
	Swinburne's Inductive Argument
	Teleological Arguments
	William Paley: The Watch and the Watchmaker
	Moral Arguments
	C. S. Lewis's Moral Argument
	Objections
	General Value of Theistic Arguments
	The Reality of God
	God Is Real
	God Is a Being
	God as a Perfect, Necessary, and Infinite Being
	A Perfect Being
	A Necessary Being
	An Infinite Being
	God as Spirit
	Implications of God as Spirit
	God as Person/Personal
Chapter 6	The Attributes of God	233
	Classifying the Divine Attributes
	Non-Moral Attributes
	Aseity
	Infinity
	Immensity and Omnipresence
	Eternity
	Immutability
Chapter 7	The Non-Moral Divine Attributes (II)	277
	Omnipotence
	Biblical Data on Omnipotence
	Defining Omnipotence
	Testing the Definition
	Sovereignty
	Omniscience
	The Bible and Divine Omniscience
	Defining Divine Omniscience
	Wisdom
	Unity
	Simplicity
Chapter 8	The Moral Attributes of God	339
	Holiness
	Righteousness
	Love
	Grace
	Mercy
	Longsuffering
	Goodness
	Lovingkindness
	Truth
Chapter 9	God, Time, and Eternity	375
	The Bible and Divine Eternity
	Historical Interlude
	Arguments for Timeless Eternity
	Timelessness a Logical Derivation from Other Doctrines
	Immutability Necessitates Timeless Eternity
	Nature of Time Necessitates a Timeless God
	Infinity and God as Everlasting
	Creation and a Sempiternal God
	Timelessness and Divine Freedom
	Temporal Duration Inadequate for the Ground of All Being
	Analogy of God as Spaceless
	Temporal God Leads to Process Theism
	Arguments Against Timeless Eternity
	Timelessness and God as a Person
	Divine Eternity and Divine Action
	Divine Eternity and Divine Simplicity
	Divine Eternity and Divine Immutability
	Biblical Portrait of God Sanctions Sempiternity
	Divine Eternity and Simultaneity with Events in Time
	Divine Omniscience and Timeless Eternity
	Atemporal God or a Temporal God?
	Why a Temporal God?
	Temporalism and Process Theology
Chapter 10	The Doctrine of the Trinity	437
	The Bible and the Doctrine of the Trinity
	There Is Only One God
	Evidences of Plurality in the Godhead
	History and the Doctrine of the Trinity
	Tertullian
	Dynamic and Modalistic Monarchianism
	Origen
	Arianism
	Councils of Nicea and Constantinople
	Clarification and Defense of Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed
	Filioque Controversy
	Augustine
	Formulation of the Doctrine of the Trinity
	Logic and the Doctrine of the Trinity
Part 3	The Acts Of God
Chapter 11	The Decree Of God	501
	Is There a Divine Decree? Positions Described
	Classical Theism
	Process Theism
	Mediating Positions
	Scripture and the Decree
	Is There a Divine Decree?
	What Is the Nature of God's Decree?
	The Decree and Foreknowledge
	Further Theological Formulation of the Doctrine of God's Decree
	The Order of the Decrees
Chapter 12	The Doctrine of Creation	537
	Various Theories of Origins
	Dualistic Theories
	Emanation Theories
	Naturalistic Evolutionary Theories
	Theistic Evolution
	Creation Theories
	Biblical Teaching on Creation
	Creation Ex Nihilo
	Other OT Themes
	NT Themes
	Genesis 1-2 and the Days of Creation
	Creation and Ancient Near Eastern Literature
	Structure of the Accounts
	Theological Themes
	Literary Genre of Genesis 1 and 2
	The Days of Creation and the Age of the Universe, Earth, and Mankind
	Naturalistic Evolutionary Theories
	Day-Age Theories
	Twenty-four-hour-day Theories
	Literary Framework Theory
	Assessment and Evaluation
Chapter 13	Divine Providence: The Decree and Human Freedom	625
	Basic Definitions
	Indeterminism
	Determinism
	Other Definitions
	Models of Providence
	General Sovereignty vs. Specific Sovereignty
	A Case for General Sovereignty Theologies
	Biblical/Theological Arguments for General Sovereignty
	Philosophical Arguments for General Sovereignty
Chapter 14	A Case for a Compatibilist Specific Sovereignty Model	677
	Biblical/Theological Arguments for Compatibilistic Specific Sovereignty
	The Basic Argument
	Objections to My Handling of Eph 1:11, and My Responses
	Other Objections
	Philosophical Considerations
	Controlling Events, But Not Actions
	What Kind of Determinism?
	Choosing an Action
	Are Reasons Causes?
	The Agent Could Have Done Otherwise
	Libertarian Freedom and the Ontological Argument
	Other Indeterminist Objections
Chapter 15	The Issue of Freedom and Foreknowledge	735
	Clarifying the Problem
	Determinist Responses to the Freedom/Foreknowledge Problem
	Indeterminist Responses to the Freedom/Foreknowledge Problem
	The Boethian Resolution
	Simple Foreknowledge
	Middle Knowledge
	The Ockhamist Resolution
	Present Knowledge
	Conclusion
Chapter 16	Divine Providence and Evil	777
	Introducing the Problem
	Strategy of Defenses and Theodicies
	Two Modified Rationalist Defenses
	The Free Will Defense
	Integrity of Humans Defense
	Conclusion
	Conclusion
Chapter 17	"No One Like Me"	799
	Notes	803
	Scripture Index	856
	General Index	869