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The Old Testament is Dying: A Diagnosis and Recommended Treatment is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Old Testament makes up the majority of the Christian Bible and provides much of the language of Christian faith. However, many churches tend to neglect this crucial part of Scripture, leading to the loss of the Old Testament as a resource for faith and life. This timely book shows how the Old Testament is like a language—a language is used and learned or it falls into disuse and eventually...

others dislike, seemingly above all else—God’s anger—could in the end be salutary, even therapeutic.54 Absolutely not to be missed here is that what God is typically mad about, according to both Tertullian and Heschel, is injustice. In Heschel’s memorable words, “The wrath of God is a lamentation. All prophecy is one great exclamation: God is not indifferent to evil! He is always concerned, He is personally affected by what man does to man. He is a God of pathos. This is one of the meanings of the
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