Michael Andres

The Skeletons in God's Closet

Apologetics

“With sensitivity to those for whom the Christian story is seen as coercive and cruel, Joshua Ryan Butler deftly navigates between biblical narratives and real life experiences to show that God is good and gracious and will put right injustice. Calling for the abandonment of popular typologies of hell, judgment, and holy war, Butler constantly pushes back to the overall arc of the biblical story, that God is at work to reconcile and contain evil, pride, and abuse, not to mete it out in some underground prison or on a battleground. This is a fine book for the postmodern skeptic or bruised reed in our ruthless world, as well as a church needing to reclaim her story of a good King inviting all his beleaguered people into his just kingdom of shalom.”