alexanderjames
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What modern works on the doctrine of God do you recommend? Big and small, broad and focused/niche.
I'm thinking 20th and 21st century.
I'm thinking 20th and 21st century.
Modern Treatments on the Doctrine of God
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Elias_Amare
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James E. Dolezal: "All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism".
clawrence9008
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"None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God" by Matthew Barrett.
Hugues Pierre
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Post Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, Richard Muller vol. 3. Probably the best book to understand the Reformed doctrine of God.
I'll count Bavinck for the 20th century.
Banner has his "Doctrine of God" as a separate volume or you can get Reformed Dogmatics.Short Studies in Systematic Theology by Crossway — Swain on the Trinity, Wellum on Christ, Sanders on Holy Spirit are very good.
Sam Renihan, Deity and Decree and God Without Passions
I second Dolezal and Muller.
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RamistThomist
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Dolezal or Barrett
Charles Johnson
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Hugues Pierre
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No; I was only saying that there is no "probably" in recommending Muller as the best. It is certainly the best.
Hugues Pierre
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particularlybaptist
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Muller, Dolezal, and Duby are all good. Some recent monographs of interest include Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine by Khaled Anatolios, Hidden and Revealed: The Doctrine of God in the Reformed and Eastern Orthodox Traditions by Dmytro Bintsarovskyi, and The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology by Adonis Vidu.
Polanus1561
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Glenn Butner as well
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Which book on the Doctrine of God is better?
Which one is better: No One Like Him: The Doctrine of God, by John Feinberg or The Doctrine of God, by John Frame? Strengths/weaknesses of each? Is one more of a "must have" than the other? (FYI - I own and have read Feinberg... I really want to know how it compares with Frame.)
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alexanderjames
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Oh yes I'd seen this.. was wondering about Feinberg and Frame, but I know neither is not completely reliable.Which book on the Doctrine of God is better?
Which one is better: No One Like Him: The Doctrine of God, by John Feinberg or The Doctrine of God, by John Frame? Strengths/weaknesses of each? Is one more of a "must have" than the other? (FYI - I own and have read Feinberg... I really want to know how it compares with Frame.)
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SolaScriptura
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Excellent modern treatment of the attributes of God. Went through it with my REs this past trimester. (We do a book study each trimester...a book about some aspect of one of the loci of theology. Last trimester was Theology Proper so we looked at that book.)
mpb
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Duby should be read more. Swain told me that his work, Jesus and the God of Classical Theism, is a book that every pastor should read and then have handy on their shelf to reference.
Pictet
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They both reject classical readings of divine simplicity, I think? And that's at the core of any classical doctrine of God; to alter it works through your entire doctrine. That's leaving aside issues in their descriptions of the Trinity...
They are both impressive scholars in their way, but I'd be reluctant to recommend them to someone who doesn't yet have a strong grasp of classical doctrine of God and classical Trinitarianism, especially as (in my opinion) they may give a skewed impression of that tradition.
With the riches of the other books recommended so far, they can be left on the shelf.
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