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🗓️ 30 May 2018
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God is infinite, transcendent, and unfathomable. On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Dr. James Dolezal joins Dr. Stephen Nichols in the studio to discuss the greatness of God.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we are talking |
0:05.0 | about not the history of God, but we are talking about the history of the doctrine of God. |
0:09.6 | That's a very important distinction. And I have a special guest with me. I have Dr. |
0:13.5 | James Dozal. Dr. Dozal, welcome. |
0:15.8 | Glad to be here, thanks. Dr. Dozal is a professor at Karen University teaches theology |
0:20.9 | in church history and philosophy. He's the author of two books, God |
0:24.2 | without parts and a book entitled All That Is in God. So Dr. Dozol, you have spent |
0:31.0 | quite a time with the doctrine of God. |
0:33.2 | Yes, I have. |
0:34.2 | And so you can help us see some of the high points here |
0:37.6 | of the doctrinal development, the history of theologians in their thinking of the doctrine of God. |
0:44.0 | Help us see some of the high points. |
0:45.8 | Well, first of all, we should say that in five minutes we can't cover all that is in God. |
0:50.6 | One of God's attributes is that he is infinite. That he is infinite. So how do we |
0:55.4 | squeeze this into a finite time? Right, but to talk about how Christians have |
1:00.1 | have thought of God from the the scriptures on, but moving into church history, there's a strong |
1:06.4 | emphasis in the early church on the unity of God, the Shepherd of Hermes written sometime before 150 AD, exhorts readers to remember that God is |
1:18.8 | one and that God is incomprehensible. |
1:22.3 | And these are early commitments |
1:24.2 | that are characteristic of Christians in general. |
1:28.9 | These aren't debated. |
1:29.9 | These aren't sectarian ideas. |
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