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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 235.4
EAN: 9780830818853
ISBN: 0830818855
Label: InterVarsity Press
Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 414
Publication Date: 1997-09
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Studio: InterVarsity Press
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In this bold and compelling work, Gregory Boyd undertakes to reframe the central issues of Christian theodicy. He argues that God has been in an age-long battle against Satan and that early Christians sought to overcome evil, not to understand it.
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The subject of Boyd's book is a very detailed explanation of the same thing that Lewis states in one chapter of Mere Christianity, where Lewis says we live, as Christians, in "enemy occupied territory." Boyd goes into the subject in far greater detail, giving OT examples of Jewish belief, Hebrew folk lore concerning "monsters" at work in the world, and God having to master them. Walter Bruggerman goes into quite a bit of detail covering the same subject in a Theology of the Old Testament, where ... Read More
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This was an excellent book. It approaches the areas of Theologis that Western enlightment would like to avoid. It is a great world view of God that is forien to most of us who have been raised in the post enlightment era.
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"God at War: The Bible and Spiritual Conflict," is truly a surprising book. I thought that I would hate it because the cover looks like a corny sample of revelation seminar art. The title also called to mind
something of the superstitious, bible-thumping, rural Pentecostal or Southern Baptist who looks for and finds a demon around every corner. The surprise is that while it is not entirely unlike that, the book really does take a brave and responsible look at God and what he expects people ... Read More
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In this extensive work, Boyd, an excellent scholar and theologian, seeks to diffuse the historical Augustinian view of evil and its reign in the earth and in the spirit realm. Boyd approaches the conflict between God and evil(satan) by looking at it from the worldview of the Old and New Testament. One of the more interesting concepts that he explores is the "world in between" understanding of the warfare that is waged in the spirit realm. He contends that evil is not of God, but is"from the start(creation)contrued ... Read More
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Boyd has a lot of good things to say about seeing reality as a cosmic war and seeing evil as an enemy to be defeated. His problem is in thinking that this requires you to deny God's sovereignty over it all. D.A. Carson has pointed out Boyd's "false antitheses"--i.e., either God is in absolute control and humans are robots, or God is helpless and humans are absolutely free. Biblically, we've got to affirm both that humans make decisions and that God is in control. So read Boyd's book prepared to eat the meat and spit ... Read More
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