God
A Biography
By Jack Miles
(Vintage, Paperback, 9780679743682, 464pp.)
Publication Date: March 19, 1996
Other Editions of This Title: Audio Cassette (September 1996), Hardcover (March 1995), Audio Cassette (January 1995)
Categories: Christian Theology - General, Theology
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What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? In this "brilliant, audacious book" (Chicago Tribune), a former Jesuit marshalls a vast array of learning and knowledge of the Hebrew Bible to illuminate God--and man--with a sense of discovery and wonder.











