God's Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church
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God's Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church  -     By: Gerald R. McDermott

God's Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church

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Has God revealed himself only to the ancient Hebrews? How did Old Testament writers view the gods of surrounding nations? Can we learn more about God by studying other world religions? What did early church fathers Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen believe? Eye-opening answers. 192 pages, softcover. InterVarsity.

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Title: God's Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church
By: Gerald R. McDermott
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 192
Vendor: IVP Academic
Publication Date: 2007
Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)
Weight: 10 ounces
ISBN: 0830825649
ISBN-13: 9780830825646
Stock No: WW825646

Publisher's Description

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.

Author Bio

Gerald R. McDermott (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is professor of religion at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He is the author of Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions? One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards and Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion and Non-Christian Faiths.

Editorial Reviews

"God's Rivals presents in engaging, lucid style considerable biblical and historical information unfamiliar to most evangelicals. McDermott helps believers see how they can interact significantly with people in other religious systems." -- J. Scott Horrell, Bibliotheca Sacra, October-December 2008

". . .highly recommended for students and Christian leaders and should be required reading for missionaries and evangelists." -- Glenn R. Kreider, Criswell Theological Review, Fall 2008

"God's Rivals continues Gerry McDermott's fascinating exploration of the theology of religions in his characteristic style: erudition without ostentation, courage balanced with prudence, and faithfulness to tradition tethering an eagerness to explore. This is a significant book that will alter the conversation." -- John G. Stackhouse Jr., Ph.D., Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture, Regent College, Vancouver, Canada

"Every chapter starts with a short summarizing view on the chapter's topic or main protagonist; afterward, step by step, he describes the most important things to know, starting with an interesting example or invented dialogue that easily catches the reader's attention and offers him exciting access to the topic." -- Kjathrin Wanner on Chrisendom, April 6, 2008

". . .a timely, readable book dealing fruitfully with an issue of increasingly critical importance." -- Henry Rowold in Missiology, Spring 2008

". . . A timely, readable book detailing fruitfully with an issue of increasingly critical importance." -- Missiology, October 2007

"It is this perennial--and perennially controversial--question that McDermott?s new book, God?s Rivals, addresses with the same winsomeness and user-friendly clarity that made the earlier book [Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?] a success." -- Steven Boyer, Prism, Nov/Dec 2007

"This is a fascinating summary and examination og the origin of world religions and how the Bible and the early church fathers perceived them. God?s Rivals provides helpful perspective on sharing Christ?s primacy with clarity and sensitivity." -- KPQX-AM, June 2007

"Gerald McDermott's God's Rivals makes a substantive contribution toward a Christian theology of religions. His appeal to the patristic use of the New Testament's category of 'powers and principalities' is exemplary retrieval from our own tradition to address a contemporary issue. The result is a proposal that guards Christ's primacy while it espouses charity and sensitivity. I commend the book both for classes and for scholars in the field." -- George Sumner, Principal, Wycliffe College, Toronto, Canada

"God's Rivals brings vividly to life religions and divine providence at work in our world, as explored and debated in the Bible and early church. McDermott compellingly brings home to us the importance of taking gods and goddesses very seriously; we are engaged in a continuing drama of divine action in our midst, and must be on watch to avoid reducing it to vague concepts and placid words. Whether we agree or not with McDermott's conclusions on today's religions, we must be grateful to him for reminding us so clearly what is at stake." -- Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

"While in recent years the theology of religions has risen to the center of theological reflection and there is a steady flow of publications on various aspects of the topic, McDermott is writing about an issue so crucial that it can be easily missed, namely, Why has God allowed religions? This is the first major work on the topic essential to all interested in the relation of Christian faith to other faiths. Building on a careful scrutiny of biblical and some patristic sources, McDermott has produced an intriguing book meant not only for specialists but for everyone wanting to know more about religion's role in a Christian perspective." -- Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Professor of Systematic Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Docent of Ecumenics, University of Helsinki

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