Author of creation : free will, the Trinity, and the restoration of all things / Ric Machuga.
| Author/creator | Machuga, Ric author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2026] |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | x, 281 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I: God. The author of creation -- How God acts -- Evolution needs God -- Newton's divine craftsman revisited -- What is a free will? -- Free will and theodicy -- Part II: Free will. What is the soul? -- What is language? -- How did language originate? -- A sublime hypothesis -- Science and the historical Adam -- Freedom and predestination -- Providence and prayer -- Part III: The Trinity. Knowing the unknowable God -- The passionate God -- Who is God? What is Jesus? -- The logic of the Trinity -- Trinitarian theology defined -- Two objections -- God is man -- What is belief? -- How belief saves -- Part IV: The restoration of all things. The restoration of all things -- What we must do -- A hope that does not disappoint -- Life in the age to come -- A soul-making theodicy -- Fitting connections. |
| Abstract | "Metaphors matter. Isaac Newton likened God to one 'very skilled in geometry and mechanics.' Soon this mathematically skilled mechanic was widely referred to as the Supreme Being, quantitatively surpassing all other beings. But it wasn't always so. John's Gospel likens God to an author needing only a Word to speak a universe into existence. In this metaphor 'God' refers to a reality qualitatively distinct from created 'existence'-authors and their characters, after all, exist in a very different way. A 'God' who can't even be said to exist the way people, rocks, and mountains exist sounds more like agnosticism than traditional Christianity. But that's because the metaphor of God as Supreme Being has become so entrenched that people forget Christians traditionally described God as the Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit. Far from being a shibboleth testing for 'doctrinal purity,' the Trinity made this unknowable God knowable, thereby bringing all souls to glory." --Publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273) and index. |
| ISBN | 9798385252053 |
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