Who on Earth is God?
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Who on Earth is God?

Making Sense of God in the Bible

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Who on Earth is God?

Making Sense of God in the Bible

About this book

How should we understand the God of the Bible? How do we make sense of God's apparently changing character in the Bible theologically? God is not obvious - unlike all the animate and inanimate objects which we can see around us. God does not appear to fulfill any useful purpose; what is God for or about? Is God just a mystery? Or a problem? Or both? In Who On Earth is God?: Making Sense of God in the Bible Neil Richardson provides the answers to these fascinating questions. Richardson tackles the hard issues surrounding some of the more problematic passages head on, looking at divine anger, violence and jealousy, and suggesting how these can be interpreted. The book engages with the difficult questions posed by contemporary issues, and the 'new atheism' pioneered by popular writers such as Richard Dawkins. This takes discussion 'beyond the bible' into later developments in thought, and notions of God in a post-modern context. This is an indispensable guide for people with or without faith, wrestling with these difficult, and eternal, questions and themes.

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Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780567472434
eBook ISBN
9780567538130
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Atheism

Table of contents

  1. Cover-Page
  2. Half-Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Title
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. Seven Steps towards Reading the Bible Well
  9. Interlude (1) Is the Bible Still Trustworthy?
  10. Interlude (2) Is the God of the Old Testament Different from the God of the New?
  11. Summary of Summaries
  12. Conclusion
  13. A Personal Postscript
  14. Index of Biblical References
  15. Copyright