
Great is the Lord
Theology for the Praise of God
Ron Highfield(Author)
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Published on 15. August 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
467 pages
978-0-8028-3300-6 (ISBN)
Description
In keeping with the classic Christian tradition, Great Is the Lord sets out the doctrine of God in a way that illumines the mind, moves the heart, and stirs the soul to praise the triune God. Ron Highfield introduces students, ministers, and others to the "traditional" doctrine of God held by the majority of the church from the second to the twentieth century: God is triune, loving, merciful, gracious, patient, wise, one, simple, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, omnipresent, immutable, impassible, and glorious.
Irenically challenging open theism and process theology, Highfield shows that the classical doctrine of God actually preserves our confidence in God's love and his liberating action better than its opponents do. This traditional doctrine, Highfield argues, grounds our dignity and freedom in the center of reality, the trinitarian life of God. Highfield's work maintains the highest intellectual standards throughout even as it offers a true theology for the praise of God.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Grand Rapids
United States
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
824 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8028-3300-6 (9780802833006)
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Ron Highfield (PhD, Rice University) is Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. He is the author of Great is the Lord: Theology for the Praise of God (Eerdmans, 2008), God, Freedom & Human Dignity: Embracing a God-Centered Identity in a Me-Centered Culture (Intervarsity Press, 2013), The Faithful Creator: Affirming Creation in an Age of Anxiety (Intervarsity Press, 2015), The New Adam: What the Early Church Can Teach Evangelicals (and Liberals) About the Atonement (Cascade, 2021), and a contributor to Four Views on Divine Providence (Zondervan, 2011).