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Metaphysics and the God of Israel: Systematic Theology of the Old and New Testaments is unavailable, but you can change that!

There are those who question the possibility of even a biblical theology of the Old and New Testaments. In this exciting, new, and original book Neil MacDonald seeks to put back on the theological agenda not merely a biblical theology, but a systematic theology, of the Old and New Testaments. Indeed, he believes that it is only by understanding the Old and New Testaments in terms of the identity...

an event in which God is in such a relationship with Israel. Such events occur when they presently take place—it is true of the very “being” of an event that, to be an event, it has to take place in the present tense, it has to be presently occurring to be an event at all. God therefore has to create what is necessary for such a historical relationship with humankind to take place. To say that God creates time and space is to say that he creates the possibility of presently occurring events2—events
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