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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...

historical identity that the people “Israel” first experienced their God. Though philosophers of the Enlightenment (for reason of their respect for the newly discovered laws of nature) thought it much easier to conceive of God creating the world than his acting in the world, such a presumption ran contrary both to Von Rad’s insight and to the history of canonical shaping. Not to put too fine a point on it: if it is irrational to affirm God acting in the world, then the question of this same God acting
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