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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...

not know the biblical God.”31 God’s speaking to and listening to us is God’s faithfulness to himself. God is not God despite changing his mind, despite answering prayer or not; as God he does such things wholeheartedly. Petitionary prayer is, for Jenson, the one decisively appropriate act of creatures in relation to God. Jenson observes that “the one God is a conversation.”32 Language is the possibility of historical being; address and response is its actuality. “If God’s being, ‘into its furthest
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