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Who on earth is God? : making sense of God in the Bible / Neil Richardson. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, (c)2014.Description: xii, 246 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780567066756
  • 9780567472434
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT103.R524.R534 2014
  • BT103
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Contents:
Introduction: 1. God and the Bible -- 2. There is no God -- 3. God and gods -- 4. The God of the Bible -- Seven steps towards reading the Bible well -- Part 1. God of beginnings: 1. In the beginning, God -- 2. Human beings and God -- 3. The question of God's patience -- 4. Beginning again: Abraham, 'friend of God' -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Part 2. Moses, Joshua, and the violence of God: 1. God the terrorist? -- 2. 'Divine' massacres, ancient and modern -- 3. Divine cruelty to dumb animals -- 4. A jealous God? -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Interlude (1): Is the Bible still trust worthy? -- Part 3. Through the darkest night: 1. Why did God allow this to happen? -- 2. Towards belief in one God -- 3. The 'judgments' of God in history -- 4. Wrath: God's dark side or ours? -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Part 4: God is a 'You' rather than an 'it': 1. An awesomely consistent 'You' -- 2. The always and everywhere 'You' -- 3. An exclusive, cruel(?) 'You' -- 4. 'My God', 'Our God' -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Interlude (2): Is the God of the Old Testament different from the God of the New Testament? -- Part 5. Jesus and God: 1. Jesus and the question of God -- 2. The strange things Jesus said about God -- 3. Not a God for religious people -- 4. The virgin birth: Jesus - human or divine? -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Part 6. Paul: the God who crossed boundaries: 1. God on the Damascus road -- 2. Jesus: In our place and in God's place -- 3. Some of our problems with Paul's God -- 4. To the church of God in Corinth -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Part 7. John's witness to God: 1. John and God -- 2. Still a violent God? The book of Revelation -- 3. God in the end -- 4. The Bible's climax: The first letter of John -- 5. SUmmary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Summary of summaries -- Conclusion: 1. Gods -- 2. The real God -- 3. God and the 'God' of the Bible -- 4. God, Jesus and the Bible -- 5. God and Jesus -- 6. The world's future -- 7. A God-crisis and belief in the real God -- A personal postscript.
Subject: 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 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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Foreword -- Introduction: 1. God and the Bible -- 2. There is no God -- 3. God and gods -- 4. The God of the Bible -- Seven steps towards reading the Bible well -- Part 1. God of beginnings: 1. In the beginning, God -- 2. Human beings and God -- 3. The question of God's patience -- 4. Beginning again: Abraham, 'friend of God' -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Part 2. Moses, Joshua, and the violence of God: 1. God the terrorist? -- 2. 'Divine' massacres, ancient and modern -- 3. Divine cruelty to dumb animals -- 4. A jealous God? -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Interlude (1): Is the Bible still trust worthy? -- Part 3. Through the darkest night: 1. Why did God allow this to happen? -- 2. Towards belief in one God -- 3. The 'judgments' of God in history -- 4. Wrath: God's dark side or ours? -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Part 4: God is a 'You' rather than an 'it': 1. An awesomely consistent 'You' -- 2. The always and everywhere 'You' -- 3. An exclusive, cruel(?) 'You' -- 4. 'My God', 'Our God' -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Interlude (2): Is the God of the Old Testament different from the God of the New Testament? -- Part 5. Jesus and God: 1. Jesus and the question of God -- 2. The strange things Jesus said about God -- 3. Not a God for religious people -- 4. The virgin birth: Jesus - human or divine? -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Part 6. Paul: the God who crossed boundaries: 1. God on the Damascus road -- 2. Jesus: In our place and in God's place -- 3. Some of our problems with Paul's God -- 4. To the church of God in Corinth -- 5. Summary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Part 7. John's witness to God: 1. John and God -- 2. Still a violent God? The book of Revelation -- 3. God in the end -- 4. The Bible's climax: The first letter of John -- 5. SUmmary -- 6. Looking ahead -- Summary of summaries -- Conclusion: 1. Gods -- 2. The real God -- 3. God and the 'God' of the Bible -- 4. God, Jesus and the Bible -- 5. God and Jesus -- 6. The world's future -- 7. A God-crisis and belief in the real God -- A personal postscript.

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 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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