God Under Fire
Modern Scholarship Reinvents God
- Theology
- Publisher: Zondervan Academic (Zondervan)
- Published: 2002
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Publisher's Description
God Never Changes Or 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 God Under Fire refutes the claim that major attributes of the God of historic Christianity are false and outdated.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.
Endorsements (14)
“Gerald L. Bray (Litt. D., University of Paris-Sorbonne), Anglican professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.”
“William Lane Craig (Ph.D., University of Birmingham, England; D.Theol., Lugwig Maximilens Universität—München, Germany), research professor of philosophy at Talbot department of philosophy, Biola University in La Mirada, California.”
“in La Mirada, California.”
“Paul Helm (M.A., University of Oxford), J. I. Packer chair of theology and philosophy at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.”
“Eric L. Johnson (Ph.D., Michigan State University), associate professor of personality and pastoral theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.”
“James S. Spiegel (Ph.D., Michigan State University), associate professor of philosophy at Taylor University, Upland, Indiana.”
“1. SHOULD THE GOD OF HISTORIC CHRISTIANITY BE REPLACED? 2. DOES GOD REVEAL WHO HE ACTUALLY IS?”
“3. CAN GOD BE GRASPED BY OUR REASON?”
“4. HAS THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF GOD BEEN CORRUPTED BY GREEK PHILOSOPHY?”
“5. IS GOD BOUND BY TIME?”
“6. WHAT DOES GOD KNOW?”
“7. HOW DO WE RECONCILE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD AND SUFFERING?”
“8. DOES GOD TAKE RISKS?”
“9. DOES GOD HAVE EMOTIONS?”
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