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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: A unique idea of God arose among the Israelites across the Levant.
Chapter 3: The Israelites forged a unique view of God, whose nature kept steadily evolving through time.
Chapter 4: Jesus’s messianic status helped shape a new understanding of God within Christianity itself.
Chapter 5: Christianity’s philosophical foundations produced an especially distinctive vision of God indeed.
Chapter 6: The Prophet Muhammad brought monotheistic Islam to peoples across the Arab world.
Chapter 7: Muslims brought Greek logic into Muslim, Jewish, and Christian theologies.
Chapter 8: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each cultivated mystical traditions.
Chapter 9: The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries saw sweeping reform and change for monotheistic religions throughout the world.
Chapter 10: The Enlightenment revived the impersonal God envisioned by many earlier philosophers across Europe.
Chapter 11: In the nineteenth century, God was declared dead.
Chapter 12: Today, we seek a God who can guide us through the challenges we face now in the present.
Description
A History of God (1993) traces the related histories of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim concepts of God. From the jealous God of the ancient Israelites to the revelations of Allah, and from the life of Jesus through to theological doctrinal discussions and God’s status in the modern world, these blinks tell the story of how conceptualizations of God in these three related religions have developed and changed over time.
Who Should Listen
- Jewish people, Christians, Muslims and all people of faith
- Historians and philosophers
- Atheists interested in the role of God in monotheistic religions