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The domestication of transcendence : how modern thinking about God went wrong
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- Creator
- William C. Placher
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, [1996]
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- xii, 222 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 066425635X, 9780664256357
- OCLC
- ocm33668270
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : theology and modernity -- Three premodern theologies -- Aquinas on the unknowable God -- Luther, the cross, and the hidden God -- Calvin's rhetoric of faith -- Modern turn : God -- Domestication of God -- Domestication of grace -- Modern turn : God and the world -- Nearer that we are to ourselves -- Where God is and what God does : some modern problems -- Grace and works in modern thought -- Marginalization of the Trinity -- Some critical retrievals -- Image of the invisible God -- Evil and divine transcendence