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That is the shock that Barrett’s book captures: Meeting the God you thought you knew, and being shocked by his sheer godness.
“The Father elected you, the Son died for you, and the Holy Spirit has called you with a holy calling.”
― Mere Calvinism
― Mere Calvinism
“That service was gross, carnal, calculated for an infant and sensitive church. It consisted in rudiments, the circumcision of the flesh, the blood and smoke of sacrifices, the steams of incense, observation of days, distinction of meats, corporal purifications; every leaf of the law is clogged with some rite to be particularly observed by them.”
― The Existence and Attributes of God
― The Existence and Attributes of God
“In one word, not to dwell longer on this, give heed, and you will at once perceive that ignorance of Providence is the greatest of all miseries, and the knowledge of it the highest happiness.”
― Institutes of the Christian Religion
― Institutes of the Christian Religion
“The ceremonial law was abolished to promote the spirituality of divine worship.”
― The Existence and Attributes of God
― The Existence and Attributes of God
“The chief problem I address in this work is the abandonment of God’s simplicity and of the infinite pure actuality of His being.”
― All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism
― All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism
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