Systematic Theology, by Louis Berkhof - New Leaven

of God generally differ from the theological views? How about the tendency to find the
essence of God in the absolute, in love, or in personality? What does Otto mean when
he characterizes it as “the Holy” or “the Numinous”? Why is it impossible for man to
comprehend God? Has sin in any way affected man’s ability to know God? Is there any
difference between Luther’s and Barth’s conception of the “hidden God”? Does Calvin
differ from them on this point? Did Luther share the Nominalist views of Occam, by
whom he was influenced in other respects? How did the Reformers, in distinction from
the Scholastics, consider the problem of the existence of God? Could we have any
knowledge of God, if He were pure attributeless being? What erroneous views of the
attributes should be avoided? What is the proper view?
LITERATURE: Bavinck, Geref. Dogm. I, pp. 91-113,; Kuyper, Dict. Dogm., De Deo I, pp.
124-158; Hodge, Syst. Theol. I, pp. 335-374; Shedd, Dogm. Theol. I, pp. 152-194; Thornwell,
Collected Works, I, pp. 104-172; Dorner, Syst. of Chr. Doct. I, pp. 187-212; Orr, Chr. View of
God and the World, pp. 75-93; Otten, Manual of the Hist. of Dogmas I, pp. 254-260; Clarke,
The Chr. Doct. of God, pp. 56-70; Steenstra, The Being of God as Unity and Trinity, pp. 1-88;
Thomson, The Christian Idea of God, pp. 117-159; Hendry, God the Creator (from the
Barthian standpoint); Warfield, Calvin and Calvinism, pp. 131-185 (Calvin’s Doctrine of
God).
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