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6 - Excursus: Must God Have Only One Eternal Purpose?

from Part II - Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2021

David H. Kelsey
David H. Kelsey
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
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This proposal rejects the traditional thesis that God must have but one overall purpose for creation. It urges that theological defense of that thesis is an artifact of a) decisions it makes about the philosophical conceptuality in which to express itself and b) an exegetically dubious commitment to the assumption that canonical scripture is “unified” by means of a single over-arching narrative. This proposal argues that those two bases for the traditional thesis have systematically distorting consequences for Christian theology.

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critique of single divine purposecritique of single canonical narrativeGod’s intellect and will
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Human Anguish and God's Power , pp. 167 - 204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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