Is God a Vindictive Bully?

Is God a Vindictive Bully?Christianity Today 2023 Award of Merit (Apologetics & Evangelism) Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. But a rising tide of critics within the church claim that Moses and other "primitive," violence prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, "textual" Old Testament God in favor of the kind,

The book includes discussion questions

David Bentley Hart critiques the concept of "tradition" that has become dominant in Christian thought as fundamentally incoherent

● Incisive comments based on the author's translation

a foreword by Robert Chao Romero

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and glossary

esteemed New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham nearly lost his ability to read--an alarming prospect for a man who considers reading

and extensive footnotes that provide key points of grammar

and our future hope

which will facilitate its use in the classroom

It covers a variety of relevant texts from the Septuagint and the Apostolic Fathers to Homer and Ignatius

The church as we know it is calibrated for a world that no longer exists