God Visible

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This book certainly is a helpful study as Daley, a notable Patristics scholar, reflects on the complexities of Patristic Christology. * Shawn J. Wilhite, California Baptist University / Durham University, Religious Studies Review * Daley's work succeeds in a way few texts can in addressing technical concerns inorder to strengthen the proclaimed witness of the Christian church. The writing is clear and at times stunningly perfect: Daley's clarification that 'the divinity of Christ's human nature, one might say, is adverbial rather than substantial' (p. 222) is alone worth the price of the book. * Kirsten Sanders, Scottish Journal of Theology * In The Invisible God, Brian Daley picks up Grillmeier's two-volume work and says "yes, and." He takes Grillmeier's two categories and moves to enlarge them, to move beyond the dialectic of either/ or, to remind the reader that the God who is known in Christ exists not as the constellation of opposites, or a confusion or mixture of them, but in the one Christ, the God-man, the one who is seen and who teaches. * Kirsten Sanders, Theologian interested in Christology and questions of material embodiment, Marginalia * It offers those who are new to the subject a comprehensive overview... of the universe that is the Christology of the Early Church, while it reminds specialist patristic scholars and theologians generally of one of the deeper purposes of the discipline. It can therefore be recommended to all of these groups of potential readers. * Josef Loessl, Cardiff University, Journal of Ecclesiastical History * This book will be useful for scholars of early church theology, for people working in Christology, and for seminary students and clergy seeking a concise and informative treatment of the development of early church Christology. Every theological library should have it. * Don Schweitzer, Anglican Theological Review * This book appears in a series designed to re-examine the paradigms and presuppositions that have guided the historians of Christian thought. It is successful in fulfilling that objective. This is not just a work for scholars but for any Christian with an interest in how the church has understood the person of Christ. * Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper *