ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the general character of classical Christian theistic vision of God, its roots and some of its implications, and explores the classical conception of God's attributes and nature. The classical conception of the God of Christianity emerged in the context of philosophically reflective Platonism and Biblical sources, especially the New Testament. The chapter offers a defence of the ontological argument for Anselmian theism and provides a brief overview of the state of play of contemporary philosophical work on or in classical Christian theology. Some people treat the ontological argument like Goldbach's conjecture and allow that the first premise stands: God's existence is either necessary or impossible. Philosophers might then diverge, with some contending that it seems likely that God's existence is impossible, others arguing that it is likely that God's existence is necessary, and still others remaining uncommitted.
