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The God biographers : our changing image of God from Job to the present / Larry Witham.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 237 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780739140970
  • 0739140973
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The God biographersDDC classification:
  • 231/.044 22
LOC classification:
  • BT98
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction : the God biographers -- Job, the Hebrews, and the Greeks -- God visits the world -- The immutable monarch -- Back to the sources -- The lament of Job -- Biography with philosophy -- Theistic solutions -- Biography with the Bible -- Toward a new biography -- What would Job say?
Summary: The God Biographers presents a sweeping narrative of the Western image of God since antiquity, following the theme of how the 'old' biography of God has been challenged by a 'new' biography in the twenty-first century. The new biography has made its case in free will theism, process thought, evolutionary doctrines, relational theology, and 'open theism'_a story of people, ideas, and events that is brought up to the present in this engaging narrative.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)600253

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the God biographers -- Job, the Hebrews, and the Greeks -- God visits the world -- The immutable monarch -- Back to the sources -- The lament of Job -- Biography with philosophy -- Theistic solutions -- Biography with the Bible -- Toward a new biography -- What would Job say?

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The God Biographers presents a sweeping narrative of the Western image of God since antiquity, following the theme of how the 'old' biography of God has been challenged by a 'new' biography in the twenty-first century. The new biography has made its case in free will theism, process thought, evolutionary doctrines, relational theology, and 'open theism'_a story of people, ideas, and events that is brought up to the present in this engaging narrative.

English.