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Jack Miles God: A Biography (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- God: A Biography
- Publication Name
- God: A Biography
- Title
- God: A Biography
- Subtitle
- Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0679743685
- EAN
- 9780679743682
- ISBN
- 9780679743682
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Genre
- Philosophy & Spirituality
- Release Date
- 19/03/1996
- Release Year
- 1996
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 203mm
- Item Length
- 132mm
- Item Width
- 25mm
- Item Weight
- 414g
- UPC
- 9780679743682
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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-kwledge, 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 than a pursuit of kwledge about the Bible's protagonist; and so, through the centuries the complexity of God's being and life has been diluted in our consciousness. In this book we find - in precisely chiseled relief - the infinitely complex God who made infinitely complex man in his image. Here, we come closer to the essence of that literary masterpiece that has shaped our culture less than our religious life. In God: A Biography, Jack Miles addresses his great subject with imagination, insight, learning, daring, and dazzling originality, giving us at the same time an illumination of the Old Testament as a work of consummate art and a journey to the secret heart of God.
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Random House USA Inc
ISBN-10
0679743685
ISBN-13
9780679743682
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183673795
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NY
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Paperback / Softback
Language
English
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Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Subject
Christian Theology
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Random House Inc
Country of Publication
United States
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