ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the doctrine of God, especially the triune nature of God, and the status and roles of apophatic theology. Christianity has a cognitive role to play in its presentations of God and the world; it seeks to explain how things are, not merely to ask and answer questions of meaning and value. John Bishop differs from many contemporary analytical philosophers of religion in that he rejects both perfect being theology and personal omniGod theism. Bishop is actively seeking to find an intellectually credible alternative to the doctrine of God in orthodox Christianity, even while looking back towards some of its major creeds. It must be noted that Calvinists disagree with other Protestants, as well as with Catholics and Orthodox, about the meaning of many passages of Scripture as they relate to doctrine: the teaching of the Eucharist, for example.
