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William C. Placher 1948-2008.

The Domestication of Transcendence : How Modern Thinking About God Went Wrong / William C. Placher. - Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press 1996 - 222 23 cm

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.

ISBN: 066425635X 9780664256357

Patent No.: 1996

LCCN: 95046686

Subjects--Uniform Titles: English

Subjects--Topical Terms:
God (Christianity)--History of doctrines.
Theology, Doctrinal--History--Modern period, 1500-
Philosophy, Modern.
God (Christianity)

Subjects--Index Terms: Natural Theology and Apologetics اللاهوت النظري - اللاهوت الدفاعي

LC Class. No.: BT98 / .P55 1996

Dewey Class. No.: 231/.09/03