God Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents GodGod Never ChangesOr does he? God has been getting a makeover of late, a "reinvention" that has incited debate and troubled scholars and laypeople alike. Modern theological sectors as diverse as radical feminism and the new “open theism” movement are attacking the classical Christian view of God and vigorously promoting their own images of Divinity.God Under Fire refutes the claim that major attributes of the God of historic Christianity are false and outdated. This book responds to some increasingly popular alternate theologies and the ways in which they cast classical Christian theism in a negative light. Featuring an impressive cast of world-class biblical scholars, philosophers, and apologists, God Under Fire begins by addressing the question, “Should the God of Historic Christianity Be Replaced?” From there, it explores issues as old as time and as new as the inquest into the “openness of God.” How, for instance, does God risk, relate, emote, and change? Does he do these things, and if so, why? These and other questions are investigated with clarity, bringing serious scholarship into popular reach.Above all, this collection of essays focuses on the nature of God as presented in the Scriptures and as Christians have believed for centuries. God Under Fire builds a solid and appealing case for the God of classical Christian theism, who in recent years—as through the centuries—has been the God under fire. |
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Contents
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DOES GOD REVEAL WHO HE ACTUALLY IS? | 43 |
CAN GOD BE GRASPED BY OUR REASON? | 71 |
HAS THE CHRISTIAN Doctrine of God Been Corrupted | 105 |
IS GOD BOUND BY TIME? | 119 |
WHAT DOES GOD KNOW? | 137 |
How Do WE RECONCIle the Existence of God and Suffering? | 157 |
Does GOD TAKE Risks? | 187 |
DOES GOD HAVE EMOTIONS? | 211 |
DOES GOD CHANGE? | 231 |
HOW SHALL WE THInk About the Trinity? | 253 |
How Can We Reconcile the Love and the Transcendent | 279 |
SCRIPTURE INDEX | 313 |
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Page 289 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 302 - Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
Page 305 - Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk. I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of...
Page 77 - Spirit in the inward man ; that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith ; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Page 284 - For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.
Page 138 - These words are faithful and true : and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show unto His servants the things which must shortly come to pass.
Page 255 - The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
Page 284 - The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the LORD loved you...
References to this book
Beyond the Bounds: Open Theism and the Undermining of Biblical Christianity John Piper,Justin Taylor,Paul Kjoss Helseth No preview available - 2003 |