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Title: God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict by Gregory A. Boyd ISBN: 0-8308-1885-5 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.59 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: God at War
Comment: I'm going to ignore the issue of whether I agree with Boyd's thesis or not. What I want to focus on is what this book does to the reader. It is impossible to passively take in what Boyd is writing. He forces you to think for yourself, regardless of whether you agree with him or not. I often had to put down the book, check out what scripture says, and ponder how it all ties together. Read this book if you want to be forced to develop a greater understanding of God's character based on what scripture says, rather than on what you've been told scripture says.
Rating: 2
Summary: Caution
Comment: What Gregory Boyd needs is a little awe and wonder. There is a necessary tension (in the literary sense) between free will and predestination, and those who think they can explain it always fall in a ditch. Mortal man cannot explain the infinite God. I think C.S. Lewis had the best idea with his 'authorized images', ways that God gives us to think about subjects that are beyond us. In that sense Boyd's warfare image is quite valuable, but where he gets off thinking he can correct Augustine I can't imagine. Don't read this book unless you are very grounded in your faith, because Boyd presents a nightmare theology. Boyd doesn't realize that, of course, because he hasn't thought through the implications of his explanation of evil.
Another more technical complaint is that Boyd does not deal with the concept of God being at war with humans, nor does he adequately realize that humans themselves are evil. It's not always 'the devil made me do it' and it occurs to me that humans may be more evil than the fallen angels, though less powerful.
Rating: 3
Summary: More answers needed.
Comment: And there's the rub,if God doesn't control everything,what is the point in praying?
If God DOES control everthing what is the point in praying?
BTW I favour the latter
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Title: Satan & the Problem of Evil: Constructing a Trinitarian Warfare Theodicy by Gregory A. Boyd ISBN: 0830815503 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Is God to Blame?: Moving Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Evil by Gregory A. Boyd ISBN: 0830823948 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God by Gregory A. Boyd ISBN: 080106290X Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: The God Who Risks: A Theology of Providence by John Sanders ISBN: 0830815015 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Letters from a Skeptic by Gregory A. Boyd, Edward K. Boyd ISBN: 1564762440 Publisher: Chariot Victor Books Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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