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QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY:
What objections are there to the use of the term attributes
as applied to God? Do the same objections apply to the German “Eigenschaften” and the
Holland “eigenschappen”? What name does Calvin use for them? What objection is there to the
conception of the attributes as parts of God or as additions to the Divine Being? What faulty
conceptions of the attributes were current in the Middle Ages? Did the Scholastics in their
search for the attributes follow an a priori or an a posteriori, a deductive or an inductive
method? Why is their method inherently foreign to the theology of revelation? What
classifications of the attributes were suggested in addition to those mentioned in the text? Why
is it virtually out of the question to give a faultless division? What division is suggested by the
Westminster Catechism?
LITERATURE:
Bavinck, Geref. Dogm. II, pp. 100-123; Kuyper, Dict. Dogm., De Deo I, pp. 268-287;
Honig, Geref. Dogm., pp. 182-185; Hodge, Syst. Theol. I, pp. 368-376; Shedd, Dogm. Theol. I, pp.
334-338; Thornwell, Collected Works, I, pp. 158-172; Dabney, Lectures on Theol., pp. 147-151;
Pieper, Christl. Dogm. I, pp. 524-536; Kaftan, Dogm., pp. 168-181; Pope, Chr. Theol. I, pp. 287-
291; Steenstra, The Being of God as Unity and Trinity, pp. 89-111.