All That Is in God Quotes

“God alters the revelation of Himself without altering Himself ontologically. He unchangingly wills changes in His ad extra dealings with creatures without willing or experiencing a corresponding change of agency in His own intrinsic actuality.”
― James E. Dolezal, All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism

“One reason that change in God, no matter how small, is theologically devastating is that it would signify some alteration in His being or life and thus, to the extent that such change occur, destabilize human confidence in His covenant promises.”
― James E. Dolezal, All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism

“Far from suggesting some sort of impoverished isolationism, divine aseity and independence, as functions of God’s pure actuality, actually speak of God’s perfect blessedness, to which nothing can be added.”
― James E. Dolezal, All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism

“The chief problem I address in this work is the abandonment of God’s simplicity and of the infinite pure actuality of His being. I suspect that many Christians make this mistake unwittingly because they have never considered what is involved in those traditional doctrines.”
― James E. Dolezal, All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism

“The chief problem I address in this work is the abandonment of God’s simplicity and of the infinite pure actuality of His being.”
― James E. Dolezal, All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism

“(It is, by the way, a truism of classical monotheism that “God” is not a kind of being: whereas there is a genus “human,” there is no genus “God.”)”
― James E. Dolezal, All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism