Fretheim, Terence E.,

What kind of God? : collected essays of Terence E. Fretheim / editor: Michael J. Chan, Brent A. Strawn. - xvii, 414 páginas ; 24 centímetros - Siphrut : literature and theology of the Hebrew Scriptures ; 14 .

Bibliografía al pie de página. Índice : páginas 399-412.

On Fretheim. Introducing Fretheim: his theology and his God / Michael J. Chan and Brent A. Strawn -- Fretheim on Fretheim: some personal reflections on a biblical-theological journey / Terence E. Fretheim -- God and the world. Divine dependence upon the human: an Old Testament perspective -- The repentance of God: a key to evaluating Old Testament God-talk -- The God who acts: an Old Testament perspective -- Some reflections on Brueggemann's God -- God and suffering. What kind of God? -- To say something: about God, evil, and suffering -- Suffering God and sovereign God in Exodus: a collision of images -- "Evil" after 9/11: a consequence of human freedom -- God and wrath. God and violence in the Old Testament -- Theological reflections on the wrath of God in the Old Testament -- The self-limiting God of the Old Testament and issues of violence -- "I was only a little angry": divine violence in the prophets -- God and the Pentateuch. Preaching creation: Genesis 1-2 -- Creator, creature, and co-creation in Genesis 1-2 -- "God was with the boy" (Genesis 21:20): children in the book of Genesis -- The plagues as ecological signs of historical disaster -- The reclamation of creation: redemption and law in Exodus -- Law in the service of life: a dynamic understanding of law in Deuteronomy -- God and the prophets. Divine foreknowledge, divine constancy, and the rejection of Saul's kingship -- The prophets and social justice: a conservative agenda -- Caught in the middle: Jeremiah's vocational crisis -- The character of God in Jeremiah -- Is anything too hard for God? (Jeremiah 32:27) -- The exaggerated God of Jonah -- Jonah and theodicy -- God and the church's book. The Old Testament in Christian proclamation -- Christology and the Old Testament -- Salvation in the Bible vs. salvation in the church -- The authority of the Bible and churchly debates regarding sexuality -- What biblical scholars wish pastors would start or stop doing about ethical issues in the Old Testament.



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Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biblia.--Antiguo Testamento--Crítica, interpretación, etc.


Dios (Christianismo)
Dios (Judaismo)
Dios--Enseñanza bíblica.
God (Christianity)
God (Judaism)
God--Biblical teaching.

BS1192.6 / .F74 2015

231.04 / F83