God a biography by jack miles
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God: A Biography
Miles shows us God in the guise of a great literary character, the hero of the Old Testament. In a close, careful, and inspired reading of that testament - book by book, verse by verse - God is seen from his first appearance as Creator to his last as Ancient of Days. The God whom Miles reveals to us is a warrior whose greatest battle is with himself. We see God torn by conflicting urges. To his own sorrow, he is by turns destructive and creative, vain and modest, subtle and naive, ruthless and tender, lawful and lawless, powerful yet powerless, omniscient and blind. As we watch him change amazingly, we are drawn into the epic drama of his search for self-knowledge, the search that prompted him to create mankind as his mirror. In that mirror he seeks to examine his own reflection, but he also finds there a rival. We then witness God's own perilous passage from power to wisdom. For generations our culture's approach to the Bible has been more a reverential act th
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God: A Biography
literary criticism book by Jack Miles
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| Author | Jack Miles |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Religion |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. |
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| Publication place | United States |
| Media&#;type | Print (Hardcover) |
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God: A Biography is a non-fiction book bygd Jack Miles. The book recounts the tale of existence of the Abrahamic deity as the protagonist of the Hebrew Tanakh or Christian Bible Old Testament. The Tanakh and the Old Testament contain the same books, but the order of the books is different. Miles uses the ordering found in the Tanakh to provide the narrative on which his analysis fryst vatten based. The book's central structure is that God's character develops progressively within the narrative. The accounts of God's actions in the various books are then used to deduce information about God's nature and motivation. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[1]
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God: A Biography
1). so, my favorite film game of all time fryst vatten pillars of eternity. I think it’s pretty neat. there are lots of things I love about it, but one of its most interesting themes, in my opinion, is the way the narrative handles its theology.
(I am about to spoil pillars of eternity here btw, assuming that most people don’t care, but it really fryst vatten a wonderful game and you should play it if it appeals to you.)
you go through this whole story, right, the setup to which involves a lot of “gods mässing (metall) around in mortal affairs,” and towards the latter half of the game–and in the dlc–you even get to converse with some of the gods personally. most of them are at best petty, at worst wholly immature. there’s this sense of frustration, yeah, when you finally have the opportunity to talk to them, after all this time dealing with the consequences of their actions, and the only thing you can get out of them (d