God of Empowering Love

David Polk presents an impressive overview and critique of the understanding of the God-world relationship in the Hebrew and Christian Bible, in the writings of Church Fathers in the early Christian centuries, those of notable medieval theologians, and of Christian theologians from the early modern period to the present day. His focus is on the historical shift from heavy emphasis on the power of God understood as transcendent of creation in the Patristic and Medieval period to an equally s...