Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Publication Credits ix

Preface xi

Part I The One God

§1 The Perfect Oneness of God 3

§1a The Divine Oneness in Holy Scripture 10

§2 The Divine Oneness as Foundational Perfection 23

§2a The Divine Oneness in Scholastic Theology 30

§2b The Divine Oneness in the Kantian Tradition 36

Part II The Omnipresent One

§3 The Perfection of the One LORD'S Hiddenness: His Omnipresence 49

§3a Divine Hiddenness and Atheism 52

§3b Divine Hiddenness and Holy Scripture 66

§3c Art Excursus on Theological Compatibilism and Epistemology 77

§3d Divine Invisibility in the New Testament 81

Part III The Omnipotent One

§4 The Perfection of the One LORD'S Holy Humility: His Omnipotence 151

Section I Divine Omnipotence A Se 153

§4a The Question of Divine Power 153

§4b Divine Omnipotence in the Tradition 174

§4c Divine Omnipotence in Positive, Scriptural Idiom 185

§4d Divine Omnipotence as Subject and Object 192

§4e Divine Omnipotence and Creaturely Suffering: the Prophet Jeremiah 223

Section II Divine Omnipotence Ad Extra 246

§4f Divine Omnipotence as Personal Relation 246

§4g The Book of Numbers 271

§4h The Mutable Immutability of the Omnipotent One 294

§4i The Book of Genesis 300

Part IV The Omniscient One

§5 The Perfection of the One LORD'S Spiritual Nature: His Eternal Omniscience 335

§5a The Omniscient One's Perfect Knowledge 346

§5b The Divine Knowledge of Evil 362

§6 Methodological and Transcendental Questions in Divine Omniscience 383

§6a The Problem of Grounding 386

§6b The Problem of Representation 389

§6c The Representative 395

§7 The Doctrine of Illumination 415

§7a Compatibilism in the Doctrine of Omniscience 428

§7b The Transcendental Relation 443

Part V Final Things

§8 The Perfection of Divine Love 469

§9 The Divine Perfections and the Exegesis of Holy Scripture 505

Index 531