God's Rivals
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In the providence of God, why are there other religions? Was the God of the Bible wise in allowing for them? Can they serve any purpose?
Gerald R. McDermott explores reflection on teaching from the Old and New Testaments and from a number of key teachers from the early church to suggest an answer to this perplexing but intriguing question. In the end McDermott provides considerable insight into the troubling clash of world religions and offers a helpful Christian response.
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Gerald R. McDermott (PhD, University of Iowa) is Anglican Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also associate pastor at Christ the King Anglican Church. His books include The Other Jonathan Edwards: Readings in Love, Society, and Justice (with Ronald Story), The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (with Michael McClymond), A Trinitarian Theology of Religions (with Harold Netland), Cancer: A Medical and Spiritual Guide (with William Fintel, MD), Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods and World Religions: An Indispensable Guide.
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Scandal of Particularity: Why Has the True God Come to Only Some People at Some Times? 2. Not Even in Israel Have I Found Such Faith: Surprising Knowledge of God Among Bible People Outside Israel and the Church 3. The Lord of Hosts: The Old Testament and the Real Existence of Other Gods 4. Principalities and Powers: The New Testament on Other Real Supernatural Powers Besides God 5. Seeds of the Word: Justin Martyr on Seeds of the Word in Other Religions 6. Divine Pedagogy: Irenaeus Explains How God Uses the Religions 7. A Divine Gift to the Greeks: Clement of Alexandria and the Gentile Covenants 8. Diverse Destinies by Diverse Choices: Origen's Warnings About Other Religions 9. What Are the Religions? And Why Are They There?: Collecting the Strands Appendix: God and the Masculine Pronoun Author and Subject Index Scripture Index
