The Perfectly Happy God: Beatitude as a Divine Perfection

Do we struggle against a downward tug when contemplating God’s perfect happiness or beatitude? Does it seem too human to speak of God as perfectly happy? How might we confess the perfection of God as blessed in a way that is both faithful and edifying? What blessings might be ours if we were to return to the realm of the perfectly happy God?The Christian tradition has a varied history of locating beatitude among the unity of the divine perfections. And yet the confession that God is blessed, ...