Divine Attributes
Texts
- Exodus 20:1-7
- Exodus 34:6-7 (and context)
- Deuteronomy 6:4-9
- Deuteronomy 32
- Job (!)
- Psalm 99
- Isaiah 1:10-20
- Isaiah 45
Additional Resources
The late Colin Gunton was active in re-thinking the relation of the biblical witness to traditional Christian thought regarding divine attributes. His main statement on this is in his book Act and Being: Towards a Theology of the Divine Attributes (London: SCM, 2002).* It would even be worth encountering some of the review literature responding to Gunton:
- A. Moore, review of C.E. Gunton Act and Being, in Journal of Theological Studies 55 (2004) 780-783.
- P.L. Metzger, review of C.E. Gunton Act and Being, in Scottish Journal of Theology 59 (2006) 106-110.
See also:
- C.R.J. Holmes, “God’s Attributes as God’s Clarities: Wolf Krötke’s Doctrine of the Divine Attributes”, International Journal of Systematic Theology 10 (2008), pp. 54–72.
- J.W. Gericke, “What is an אֵל? A philosophical analysis of the concept of generic Godhood in the Hebrew Bible”, Old Testament Essays 22 (2009), pp. 21-46.
- K.L. Noll, “The Kaleidoscopic Nature of Divine Personality in the Hebrew Bible”, Biblical Interpretation 9/1 (2001), pp. 1-24.
- The Catholic Encyclopedia on: Divine Attributes and Nature and Attributes of God.
- The Jewish Encyclopedia on Attributes.
Wolfhart Pannenberg’s autobiographical reflections in “God’s Presence in History” (Christian Century, March 11, 1981, pp. 260-263) set out some of the issues involved in grappling theologically and biblically with the doctrine of God.
* from Gunton, Act and Being, page 3:
It is one of the tragedies—one could almost say crimes—of Christian theological history that the Old Testament was effectively displaced by Greek philosophy as the theological basis of the doctrine of God, certainly so far as the doctrine of the divine attributes is concerned.