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Taste and see that the Lord is good, the Psalmist writes (Ps 34:8). And to those who called him good, Jesus said, No one is goodexcept God alone (Mk 10:18).
In this volume in IVP Academics Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture series, Christopher R. J. Holmes explores the divine attribute of Gods goodness through a theological interpretation of the Psalter that engages with the churchs rich tradition, including Augustine and Barth, but especially Aquinas. He contends that in the very depths of Gods being, God is goodness itself and that goodness is preeminent among the divine attributes.
Leading us in this journey through the Psalms and the churchs tradition, Holmes helps us to understand what it means to make that simple affirmation: God is good.
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InterVarsity Press
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2018 by Christopher R. J. Holmes
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You are good and do good;
teach me your statutes.
PSALM 119:68
M Y DEBTS OF GRATITUDE ARE MANY. First, I would like to thank my colleagues in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Otago. I have the privilege of working with good, kind, and considerate people. I would also like to thank the Division of the Humanities at Otago for a five-month research leave during the first half of 2017. This time away allowed me to finish the book. Second, one of my PhD students, Cameron Coombe, read through a first draft of the book in its entirety, offering many helpful suggestions along the way. I am grateful. Third, for Daniel Treiers encouragement of the project: his comments, on both a rough first and a penultimate draft, were much appreciated. They have made for a better book.
Fourth and last, for Reverend Professor John Webster (19552016), who died midway through this project. I first met John as a ThD student at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, in the early 2000s. Though John had by that time left Toronto for Oxford, he was nonetheless a regular visitor to Toronto. He encouraged me to pursue work on the divine attributes and supervised some of that work. Regular notes to and from him followed thereafter, first to a young theologian working at Providence Theological Seminary in Manitoba, and then to Aotearoa/New Zealand, where I have happily taught for several years now. John always seemed to know what to say and how to say it. He was not only a gifted theologian but also a faithful pastor. I would have liked for him to have read this book, but he is now with his Lord, and sees clearly the things about which I write but through a glass darkly. It is to him, a servant of God in the gospel of Christ, that I dedicate this book.
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T HIS IS A BOOK ABOUT GOD, indeed Gods goodness. In the pages to come, I unfold something of how God is goodness itself. Goodness is worth contemplating because it is the preeminent claim the Psalms make with respect to God. Of course, Scripture as a whole makes many assertions about Gods nature: for example, God is almighty, faithful, holy, and merciful. But I want to think through why goodness among the attributes has preeminence in the Psalter: You are good (Ps 119:68). Indeed, I argue that goodnesss priority in the Psalter extends to all of Scripture. Goodness has a scriptural density and range that even the other great attributelovedoes not quite have.
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