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God is allpowerful. God is allknowing. God is everpresent. But is God humble?Though the answer may seem obvious, humility is rarely identified as one of Gods attributes. Christianity has traditionally emphasized an array of divine attributes centering around omnipotence. In Divine Humility, Matthew Wilcoxen attempts to supplement traditional study of the godhead by focusing on Gods humility.Wilcoxen first examines how to refer properly to Gods being. Contending with those who say that human concepts cannot communicate Gods being at all, Wilcoxen articulates an account of theological concepts that holds together simultaneously both Gods objectivitythat he is "for us"and Gods subjectivitythat he remains yet totally free. Wilcoxen argues that the concept best positioned to achieve this objective is humility, which, in the Christian tradition, has been considered the paragon of virtues and should thus fittingly be attributed to Gods character.Wilcoxen next explores divine humility through the work of three different theologiansAugustine, Karl Barth, and Katherine Sonderegger. Augustine, Wilcoxen argues, ascribes humility to God in a tantalizing way, but fails to explain further its doctrinal implications. Karl Barth articulates a more developed doctrine of divine humility by linking Gods divine being to his redemptive work. But Barths account ultimately suffers because it flatly equates humility with obedience and divides the divine will into the separate entities of the Father and the Son. It is the recent work of Katherine Sonderegger that best articulates an account of divine humility that carries forward Augustines mantle and overcomes the problems in Barths account. By connecting Gods humility to divine energy, Sonderegger shows how God can be near to creation without overwhelming it.Ultimately, Wilcoxen contends that humilitys importance as a divine attribute indicates that it should be fully considered in any Christian doctrine of God. Divine Humility serves as an important reminder to Christians that God, as powerful as He is, is also a God of great magnanimity and love.
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