The Mystery of God

The Mystery of GodChristianity Today 2014 Book Award Winner How can I know God if he is incomprehensible? Is it possible to know God in a way that takes seriously the fact that he is beyond knowledge? Steven Boyer and Christopher Hall argue that the "mystery of God" has a rightful place in theological discourse. They contend that considering divine incomprehensibility invites reverence and humility in our thinking and living as Christians and clarifies a variety of

this book explores what the Old Testament actually says about the Messiah

While analyzing Paul's thought through this lens of well-being and flourishing

He interacts critically with current interest in the New Testament's use of the Old Testament and addresses an issue of perennial concern: how to hear both testaments as Christian witness

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respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity

Brian Brock follows the first few chapters of Genesis in order to discover the things that the sages of Israel took to be crucial for the ethical life of human beings among other creatures in God's world

Theologian Peter Bouteneff explores how first-millennium Christian understandings of creation can inform current thought in the church and in the public square

The author explains that holiness is grounded not in ethics but in the basic nature of God

And he applies biblical principles to dilemmas arising from divorce and marriage

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leading experts on universal salvation--David W

Blomberg begins by reviewing the first three quests