The Doctrine of God: A Defense of Classical Christian Theism - Paperbackby Jordan B. Cooper (Author) Since the birth of Protestant Liberalism at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the classical understanding of the doctrine of God, as formulated in the Augustinian and medieval scholastic traditions, has come under scrutiny. As philosophers lost confidence in the metaphysical conclusions reached by the ancient Greek philosophers, theologians began to implement different philosophical systems in their formation of the