THEIR ROCK

IS NOT LIKE

OUR ROCK

A THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS

DANIEL STRANGE

ZONDERVAN®

ZONDERVAN

Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock

Copyright © 2014 by Daniel Strange

First published in 2014 by Apollos (an imprint of Inter-Varsity Press) in the United Kingdom under the title For Their Rock Is Not As Our Rock (ISBN 1-78359-100-5)

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In the spirit and

on the shoulders of

J. H. Bavinck

‘For their rock is not as our Rock …’

(Deuteronomy 32:31a esv)

This apprehension of the essential ‘otherness’ of the world of divine realities revealed in Jesus Christ from the atmosphere of religion as we know it in the history of the race cannot be grasped merely by way of investigation and reasoning. Only an attentive study of the Bible can open the eyes to the fact that Christ, ‘the power of God’ and ‘the wisdom of God’, stands in contradiction to the power and wisdom of man. Perhaps in ...