Book Description: The anthropomorphic nature of God in the Bible has been a delight to midrashists and mystics on the one hand and an outrage to philosophers and theologians on the other. Though philosophers often find the biblical image of God immoral and the attribution of human qualities offensive, the depiction of God as a real personality involved in the human situation persists in our human consciousness and theology.
With scholarly passion and imaginative insight, Dr. Yochanan Muffs illuminates the ever-changing face of God and reveals our own mechanisms for preserving our faith, nourishing our souls and ensuring that we flourish. In this compelling work, Dr. Muffs calls for a remythologizing (not a demythologizing) of our theology--one that allows us to delight in the personhood and mythic character of God as poetically formulated models of our own humanity.
To better relate to the God who personally relates to us. There are two fundamental ways of seeing God.One is to see God as the God of Nature and the Universe, the God of Impersonal Laws, the God of Einstein's physics and Spinoza's 'Ethics'. The other way, more satisfying perhaps and more difficult, more logically problematic perhaps also, is to see God as Person. The Personal God, the God which the Bible gave to the world is the subject of this illuminating and inspiring study by Yochannan Muffs. In his admiring introduction Rabbi David Hartman speaks about Muffs' showing the God of the Bible as dymanic and developing . This is the God that humans can relate to in terms of their own personality and relationships, the God who somehow provides a model for what their Humanity should be. This exploration of the 'human personal God' is at the heart of this faith- strengthening work .
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