power to transform lives, to open new vistas of hope, and to offer the gift of divine reconciliation are part of the unexpected surprises inviting its readers to an encounter with a gracious and forgiving God. My purpose in writing this book is not immediately to offer yet another approach to the Bible. Rather, I have chosen to trace through the centuries the different ways in which great Christian theologians have struggled to understand the book of Isaiah as the church’s sacred scripture, that
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