‘The Fountain of Life’ is a creative and engaging invitation to worship God more fully by better understanding his self-existent nature.
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What do you do if your 8-year-old son looks at you and says, “Dad, if God is eternal, and if being eternal for him means that he had no beginning or end, and Jesus gives us eternal life, but we do have a beginning, does that mean he is more eternal than us?” (2). If you’re Samuel Parkison, associate professor of theological studies at Gulf Theological Seminary, you write a little book called The Fountain of Life: Contemplating the Aseity of God.
OK, that’s probably not why Parkison wrote it, given it also happens to be the opening volume in the Contemplating God series. But it is how he frames his discussion of God’s aseity (i.e., his eternal, unoriginated self-existence). And Parkison invites us to ponder this question with the spirit of a child, “asking a question for the sheer joy of getting its answer” (6).
