God Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents God

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God Never ChangesOr 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of Divinity.God Under Fire refutes the claim that major attributes of the God of historic Christianity are false and outdated.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.

D. A. Carson (PhD, University of Cambridge) is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is the author or coauthor of over 45 books, including the Gold Medallion Award-winning book The Gagging of God, and An Introduction to the New Testament. He is general editor of Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns and Worship by the Book. He has served as a pastor and is an active guest lecturer in church and academic settings around the world. Willaim Lane Craig (Ph.D., University of Birmingham, England) is research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University and lives in Marietta, GA. 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. Douglas S. Huffman (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is dean of admissions and records and associate professor of Bible at Northwestern College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Huffman has contributed articles to several dictionaries and to the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. 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. James Spiegel is an associate professor of Philosophy at Taylor University.