Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 434
Trim: 9¼ x 9
978-1-9787-0621-7 • Hardback • January 2021 • $135.00 • (£104.00)
978-1-9787-0622-4 • eBook • January 2021 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Jan Muis is emeritus professor of systematic theology at the Protestant Theological University, Amsterdam.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Prologue
1. The God Question
PART I: CHRISTIAN TALK
2. The Structure of Christian Talk about God
3. Talk about God in Faith
4. The Ground for Christian Talk about God
PART II: ABOUT GOD
5. Speaking of the Exalted
6. Biblical Names for God
7. Thinking about the Most High
8. The Love of God
9. The Holiness of God
10. The Justice of God
11. The Power of God
12. The Eternality of God
13. The Reality of God
Epilogue
Bibliography
English readers are fortunate to have access to this career-crowning work by Dutch theologian Jan Muis. Like his intellectual mentor Kornelis H. Miskotte, Muis possesses an original theological voice that is at once unsentimental about the challenges of God-talk in a secular age, and deeply committed to the elementary grammar of biblical faith. Reading Muis provides an opportunity to think afresh about the most basic questions of the Christian doctrine of God, in the company of a commendably lucid, patient, thorough, and widely-read companion.
— R. Kendall Soulen, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
In this remarkable work, the fruit of many years of labor and contemplation, Jan Muis sets forth a compelling treatment of Christian speech about God. The volume explores not only the methodological questions of the structure and nature of faithful talk about God; it also offers a series of creative reflections on the concept of God that arises from the relational petitions of the Lord’s Prayer. Drawing deeply from Scripture, yet sensitive also to both the Christian tradition and Christian experience, the result is a vision of God that is at the same time biblically informed, theologically insightful, and highly contemporary.
— Paul T. Nimmo, University of Aberdeen