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

  • from Part II - Kingdom
  • David H. Kelsey, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    Human Anguish and God's Power
    Published online:
    23 January 2021
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 167-204

  • Summary

    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.