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the Jesuit idea of a scientia media? How must we judge of the modern emphasis on the love of
God as the central and all-determining attribute of God? What is Otto’s conception of “the
Holy” in God? What objection is there to the position that the punishments of God simply serve
to reform the sinner, or to deter others from sin? What is the Socinian and the Grotian
conception of retributive justice in God? Is it correct to say that God can do everything in virtue
of His omnipotence?
LITERATURE:
Bavinck, Geref. Dogm. II, pp. 171-259; Kuyper, Dict. Dogm., De Deo I, pp. 355-417;
Vos, Geref. Dogm. I, pp. 2-36; Hodge, Syst. Theol. I, pp. 393-441; Shedd, Dogm. Theol. I, pp. 359-
392; Dabney, Syst. and Polem. Theol., pp. 154-174; Pope, Chr. Theol. I, pp. 307-358; Watson,
Theol. Inst. Part II, Chap. II; Wilmers, Handbook of the Chr. Religion, pp.. 171-181; Harris, God,
Creator and Lord of All, I, pp. 128-209; Charnock, The Existence and Attributes of God,
Discourse III, VII-IX; Bates, On the Attributes; Clarke, The Christian Doctrine of God, pp. 56-115;
Snowden, The Personality of God; Adeney, The Christian Conception of God, pp. 86-152;
Macintosh, Theology as an Empirical Science, pp. 159-194; Strong, Syst. Theol., pp. 282-303.