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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...

what he is.”36 Gunton argues that to think of God mainly in terms of intellect, an emphasis we see in Maimonides and Thomas, results in a conception of God at odds with the biblical rendition of God according to which God is mainly known through his particular acts in history. To conceive God primarily in terms of intellect, with priority given to contemplation instead of action, renders the conception antithetical to a concept of God whose being is known primarily through his historical and particular
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