ABSTRACT

This chapter describes something about the 'justifiability' of Christian faith. Christian faith may thus preserve its religious ultimacy while nevertheless being open to full philosophical critique. For Christian theism, God is the Creator, that is, the ultimate cause of all that is. Even though God, understood as a person, is supreme, unique and supernatural, he will still be a person amongst persons, an entity among entities. Differing assumptions about the epistemology of revelation yield differing conclusions about the nature and status of Christian knowledge of God. Personal omniGod theists have to maintain that God is perfectly good as a morally responsible personal agent in relationship with other personal agents. An objection to understanding divine goodness as the perfect goodness of an individual person is that doing so is directly contradicted by the central Christian doctrine of the nature of God, namely the doctrine of the Trinity.