John Feinberg reads theology with a philosopher’s eye and writes it with the same sensitivity to illogic and inconsistency. The special excellence of this long, learned, clear, painstaking exposition of historic Christian belief about God is its harvesting of the brilliant philosophical work of the past half century, which has banished muddles from the theological scene. This is the new landmark exposition of God that Bavinck might have produced had he been able to write his masterful Reformed Dogmatics a century later than he did. Feinberg makes philosophical analyses as palatable as possible, and students who can handle them and also absorb ample textual studies will find this book a permanently fruitful and authoritative resource.
—J. I. PACKER Professor of Theology Regent College
This is a prodigious biblical and philosophical study of the doctrine of God set in the context of an exploratory analysis of the concept of God in contemporary thought. Feinberg judiciously reconstructs aspects of the classic view of God in a manner that is more faithful than process and open theisms. This is arguably the best study of theology proper to be published.
—BRUCE DEMAREST Professor of Theology and Spiritual Formation Denver Seminary
