God Under Fire - Modern Scholarship Reinvents God

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 God Under Fire refutes the claim that major attributes of the God of historic Christianity are false and outdated.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.

List of contents

PREFACE 9
ABBREVIATIONS 10
1. SHOULD THE GOD OF HISTORIC CHRISTIANITY BE REPLACED? 11
ERIC L.JOHNSON AND DOUGLAS S.HUFFMAN
2. DOES GOD REVEAL WHO HE ACTUALLY IS? 43
MARK R.TALBOT
3. CAN GOD BE GRASPED BY OUR REASON? 71
ERIC L.JOHNSON
4. HAS THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF GOD BEEN CORRUPTED
BY GREEK PHILOSOPHY? 105
GERALD L.BRAY
5. IS GOD BOUND BY TIME? 119
PAUL HELM
6. WHAT DOES GOD KNOW? 137
WILLIAM LANE CRAIG
7. HOW DO WE RECONCILE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD AND SUFFERING? 157
R.DOUGLAS GEIVETT
8. DOES GOD TAKE RISKS? 187
JAMES S.SPIEGEL
9. DOES GOD HAV E EMOTIONS? 211
PATRICK LEE
10. DOES GOD CHANGE? 231
CHARLES E.GUTENSON
11. HOW SHALL WE THINK ABOUT THE TRINITY? 253
BRUCE A.WARE
12. HOW CAN WE RECONCILE THE LOVE AND THE TRANSCENDENT
SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD? 279
D.A.CARSON
SCRIPTURE INDEX 313
AUTHOR INDEX 319
SUBJECT INDEX 323

About the author

Douglas S. Huffman (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is dean of academic programs and professor of New Testament at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. He is the author of Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the Greek New Testament and The Handy Guide for New Testament Greek.
Eric L. Johnson (PhD, Michigan State University) is an associate professor of personality and pastoral theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Johnson has written articles for the Journal of Psychology and Theology, Journal of Psychology and Christianity, Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology, and the Journal of Evangelical Theological Society.Doug Geivett is a professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. Dr. Geivett served as the college pastor of a church in Washington and the Church of the Open Door in Southern California.James Spiegel holds a PhD from Michigan State University and currently teaches philosophy at Taylor University. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning How to Be Good in a World Gone Bad. Spiegel is a frequent speaker at Christian colleges, conferences, churches, and on radio programs. He lives in Fairmount, Indiana, with his wife, Amy, and their four children, Bailey, Samuel, Magdalene, and Andrew.William Lane Craig (PhD, University of Birmingham, England) is research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University and lives in Marietta, GA.D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has been at Trinity since 1978. Carson came to Trinity from the faculty of Northwest Baptist Theological Seminary in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he also served for two years as academic dean. He has served as assistant pastor and pastor and has done itinerant ministry in Canada and the United Kingdom. Carson received the Bachelor of Science in chemistry from McGill University, the Master of Divinity from Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto, and the Doctor of Philosophy in New Testament from the University of Cambridge. Carson is an active guest lecturer in academic and church settings around the world. He has written or edited about sixty books. He is a founding member and currently president of The Gospel Coalition.

Summary

A positive presentation of the God of classic Christian theism, the One who in recent years---as for hundreds of years--has become the God Under Fire.

Product details

• Authors: Zondervan
• Assisted by: Douglas S. Huffman (Editor), Eric L. Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Collins (US)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.2002
• EAN: 9780310232698
• ISBN: 978-0-310-23269-8
• No. of pages: 325
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 376 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christian Theology / Eschatology, TOPICAL / Christian Interest