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The God Who Acts in History: The Significance of Sinai is unavailable, but you can change that!

Did the decisive event in the history of Israel even happen? The Bible presents a living God who speaks and acts, and whose speaking and acting is fundamental to his revelation of himself. God’s action in history may seem obvious to many Christians, but modern philosophy has problematized the idea. Today, many theologians often use the Bible to speak of God while, at best, remaining agnostic...

the Son of God has tabernacled among us. For Gunton, the negative way thus amounts to a form of unbelief, seeking God first apart from and before the incarnation of the Son of God. The sinful, finite mind cannot attain to the essence of God through its own powers. The same can be said of the doctrine of analogy.27 Gunton discerns two rival accounts of language about God. The first is that of the negative way, which begins with the mythical language associated with the Greek gods and negates it. “Because
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