Portraits of a mature God : choices in Old Testament theology

✍ Scribed by McEntire, Mark Harold

Publisher: Fortress Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 251
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

What difference would it make for Old Testament theology if we turned our attention from the more dramatic, forceful "mighty acts of God" to the more subdued, but more realistic themes of later writings in the Hebrew Bible? The result, Mark McEntire argues, would be a more mature theology that would enable us to respond more realistically and creatively to the unprecedented challenges of the present age

✦ Table of Contents

Content: The God at the end of the story --
A creative and energetic God --
A commanding and delivering God --
A nation-building God --
A punishing and destroying God --
A restoring God.

✦ Subjects

God -- Biblical teaching. Bible. -- Old Testament -- Theology. Bible. -- Old Testament. Theology.

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