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God: A Brief History - Softcover

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Paul E. Capetz

 
9780800636302: God: A Brief History

Synopsis

This brief tour through three thousand years of religious history shows how the Christian doctrine of God evolved in response to tensions within the insights of monotheism. The very personal, changeable, and involved God of the Hebrew Bible transformed decisively in its encounter with Greek metaphysical concepts and with the emerging trinitarian notions of the early Christian period. Capetz skillfully traces this history and shows how the tensions thus created are with us still.

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About the Author

Paul E. Capetz is Associate Professor of Historical Theology, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles, his M. Div. From Yale Divinity School, his M.A. from Yale University, and his Ph.D. form University of Chicago Divinity School. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics. Capetz is author of Christian Faith as Religion: A Study in the Theologies of Calvin and Schleiermacher (1998).

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