Portraits of God: A Biblical Theology of HolinessInterVarsity Press, 2001 - 432 páginas What is God like?Answering this is the great quest of human existence. Because God is so different from us, we struggle to describe him. While doctrinal statements about God certainly have their place in Christian understanding, the Bible more often uses God's actions and roles to help us know him better. Indeed, some of the most helpful insights in Scripture arise when God is compared to something else: a rock, an eagle or a tower. And many "human" metaphors--metaphors taken from the world of actions and relationships--bring us even closer to understanding of God.In Portraits of God, Allan Coppedge suggests we look carefully at God as our Father, Redeemer, King, Judge, Priest and Creator. These portraits taken together give us an understaning of the Holy One for which no single category is adequate. These images work their way through the whole of Scripture. They are the doorway allowing us into the mysteries of God's very being.In Portraits of God, Coppedge offers a comprehensive survey, picturing a God who wants to be known personally and who has profoundly communicated himself. Coppedge finds the inexhaustible nature of God to be one of holiness reflected in and best described by the language of diverse roles. Approaching God in this way transforms us, as churches and individuals, to reflect God's own holy character. This is a book for students, pastors and churchgoers alike. Anyone desiring to know more deeply and wholly the Christian God revealed in the Bible will find in Portraits of God a treasure of scholarship and truth. |
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Abbreviations | 9 |
Introduction | 11 |
BIBLICAL ROLES OF GOD An Overview | 21 |
THE UNITY OF THE ROLES | 39 |
HOLY GOD AS TRANSCENDENT CREATOR | 54 |
HOLY GOD AS SOVEREIGN KING | 99 |
HOLY GOD AS PERSONAL REVEALER | 134 |
HOLY GOD AS PRIEST | 174 |
HOLY GOD AS LOVING FATHER | 244 |
HOLY GOD AS POWERFUL REDEEMER | 300 |
HOLY GOD AS GOOD SHEPHERD | 332 |
THE IMPLICATIONS OF ROLES | 359 |
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