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Divine Blessedness


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The Blessed God: Twenty Theses

A Scripture-saturated summary of the central claims that guide this site’s theology of divine blessedness, plenitude, gift, and creaturely communion with God.

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Knowing the Blessed God: Seven Biblical Meditations introduces the biblical foundations of the topic before the longer essays below.

Read from biblical foundations to God’s perfect fullness and the gift of communion with him. Read the articles in the following order; each develops a distinct part of the argument.

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1. Exegetical Foundations for Divine Plenitude

2. Divine Plenitude

3. The Blessedness of God and the Triune Life of Love

4. The Blessed God Gives Life

5. John Owen on the Blessed God

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6. The God Who Needs Nothing Gives Everything: divine aseity and the gratuity of creation.

7. Divine Simplicity and the Blessed Life of God: the unity of the divine perfections.

8. The Warm Comfort of the Unchanging, Impassible God: the pastoral meaning of divine constancy.

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