The Named God And The Question Of Being

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From To On to the Ipsum Esse The Christianization of Being
15
From the First Cause to the Infinite The Secularization of Being
51
From OntoTheology to TheoOntology The Demise of Being
90
THE SAGA OF THE I AM
131
From Exodus to Exile The Covenanted I AM
133
From Jacobs Well to Calvarys Cross The Incarnate I AM
174
From the Future to the Eternal The Exalted I AM
207
THE SAGA OF THE TRIUNE NAME
247
From the I AM to the Trinity The Meaning of the Divine Name
249
From the Trinity to Being The Ontology of the Divine Name
291
From Gods Triune Being to Human Being Our Inclusion into the Divine Name
342
Index
374
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Page 226 - Grace to you and peace, from Him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne; 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
Page 231 - And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
Page 163 - Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Page 362 - His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Page 214 - Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?"—Jesus said, "I am; and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven
Page 73 - Thus it appears reasonable to suppose, that it was what God had respect to as an ultimate end of his creating the world, to communicate of his own infinite fulness of good ; or rather it was his last end, that there might be a glorious and abundant emanation of his infinite fulness of good ad extra...
Page 222 - Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living one. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
Page 147 - And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee ; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

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