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God Is a Man of War

The Problem of Violence in the Old Testament

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God Is a Man of War

By: Stephen De Young
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Infanticide. Holy war. Divine wrath. Violence in the Old Testament has long been a stumbling block for Christians and skeptics alike. Yet, conventional efforts to understand this violence - whether by downplaying it as allegory or a relic of primitive cultures, or by dismissing the authority of Scripture altogether - tend to raise more questions than they answer.

God Is a Man of War offers a fresh interpretation of Old Testament accounts of violence, by exploring them through the twofold lens of Orthodox tradition and historical context. Father Stephen De Young examines what these difficult passages reveal about the nature of Christ and His creation, bearing witness to a world filled not only with pain and suffering - often of human making - but also with the love of God.

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The book helpfully covers the controversy of biblical violence, while also introducing new concepts and wider viewpoints that develop from such topics.

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Another great book by Stephen de Young. I never could make sense of the stories of Yefta’s child sacrifice and the slaughter of the children by the she bear. This book has made a lot of things clear!

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