Divine Inversion: Or A View Of The Character Of God As In All Respects Opposed To The Character Of Man - Softcover

David Thom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371376610 ISBN 13: 9780371376614

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Divine Inversion: Or A View Of The Character Of God As In All Respects Opposed To The Character Of Man by David Thom. Divine Inversion is a late 18th/early 19th-century theological treatise in which Thom propounds the doctrine of divine inversion—the idea that what is divine is opposed to what is human in every respect, and that revelation progressively overturns human expectations. The book opens with a Preface recounting Thom's discovery that faith can be the medium through which understanding is formed, and he generalizes this into a universal principle: whatever stands in any one order naturally, stands in exactly the opposite order supernaturally. The work catalogs numerous scriptural instances, from creation to regeneration, illustrating how divine truth inverts natural order: the last shall be first; the will of God opposes the will of man; entrance to life is by the strait gate rather than the wide gate; and the two states of the church—reconciliation and salvation—demonstrate how divine purposes unfold through opposition to human expectations. The treatise is anti-Socinian and pro-universal salvation in the sense that divine love will ultimately absorb evil, but in its historical form it asserts a small elect who are saved in the present. It is a polemical work combining exegesis, reasoning, and vivid paradox to challenge conventional piety and to defend a hierarchical view of salvation grounded in divine sovereignty.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371376610
• ISBN 13: 9780371376614
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336