Greetings and salutations.

Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything.

I'm Kevin DeYoung, your host.

And this is a special episode of LBE.

It's a brief episode.

You may or may not be aware that beginning at the start of 2025, in partnership with Crossway, I started a new podcast in addition to this one. It's called

Doctrine Matters. And each week, I take about 15 minutes and work through some of the key elements of systematic theology.

So this is coming out of my book, Daily Doctrine, but it's not just reading those chapters.

It's really in an informal way trying to teach through some of the highlights of systematic theology over the course of a year.

So right here is this latest episode. We're going to drop it in here at LBE first. And if that's

an interest to you, you might want to go over to Doctrine Matters and think about subscribing.

You can go and get the ones you've

missed or just pick up where you are and start listening for the rest of the year. That would be a

helpful weekly short injection of systematic theology because, after all, doctrine matters.

Last week, we were beginning to look at theology proper, that is the doctrine of God,

and we tried to lay out some important and maybe new theological distinctions, talking about

the very language we used to speak of God, that it is not univocal. We don't mean

the same thing by goodness related to a dog as we mean goodness related to God. But it's not

equivocal. Our human words are not completely removed from reality. They're not completely different, but analogical. So there's a

relationship, though we cannot know God exhaustively. We can know God truly as he reveals himself to us.

And then we talked about the spirituality of God, what it means that God is spirit.

Now we're moving into the attributes of God. The divine attributes are qualities or

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