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A More Christlike God
- A More Beautiful Gospel
- Narrated by: Tim Welch
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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What is God like? A punishing judge? A doting grandfather? A deadbeat dad? A vengeful warrior? "Believers" and atheists alike typically carry and finally reject the toxic images of God in their own hearts and minds. Even the Christian Gospel has repeatedly lapsed into a vision of God where the wrathful king must be appeased by his victim son. How do such "good cop/bad cop" distortions of the divine arise and come to dominate churches and cultures?
Whether our notions of "God" are personal projections or inherited traditions, author and theologian Brad Jersak proposes a radical reassessment, arguing for a more Christlike God and a more beautiful Gospel.
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A More Christlike God suggests that such a God would be very good news indeed - a God who Jesus "unwrathed" from dead religion, a love that is always toward us, and a grace that pours into this suffering world through willing, human partners.
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- Jim
- 2019-08-02
The most Beautiful Truth
This book is beautiful exegesis of the amazing love of God in 3 persons. I listened twice after reading the book twice and will do it all again. Take your time, its a feast to enjoy fully.
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- allen smith
- 2023-01-15
Excellent book
It was an eye opener.
I appreciate the authors thorough explanations.
I will listen again.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-09-29
A Helpful Corrective to a Common View of God
Trying to make sense of the Bible's picture of God can be a daunting task. Is God angry and vengeful or loving and sacrificial? In A More Christlike God, Brad Jersak proposes a way of understanding God that rescues him from the good cop/bad cop dichotomy that often plagues evangelical thinking while still taking the Bible seriously as an authoritative text for believers.
Following the theology of the church fathers, he looks at how God is perfectly revealed in Jesus on the cross, and then he helps us to understand what to make of images of God's wrath that fill the Old Testament. I feel like this gave me helpful building blocks for understanding God and the mission of the church.
My only quibble with this audiobook is the narration. The tone sounded somewhat angry, which runs contrary to the message. The narrator often mistakes biblical references (like saying 2nd Philippians instead of Philippians Chapter 2).
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- C. Joseph
- 2020-08-01
Magnificent for both the intellect and the heart
Jersak is intellectually honest as well as heart-full in his faith. He is academically rigorous (look up his education!), and thoroughly committed to a biblical faith. The first chapter may throw some off (RE: his discussion with a faith-vanishing highschool student), but it serves to brace the reader for the biblical tour that is the rest of the book. Scales may fall from the eyes of some, simply because of a closer encounter with the truth of the God of the Bible. For example, I find his proposal for a christocentric hermeneutic to be very compelling. After this book, I went on to listen to "Her Gates Will Never Be Shut" and am thoroughly grateful for Jersak's ministry to the Church through his prayerful research and writing.
The narrator is fine, but he mispronounces quite a few words in nearly every chapter (e.g. "mediate" as "meditate"), especially those relating to the Bible. It's easy enough to brush off, though—it doesn't ruin the overall experience.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2019-04-02
Excellent theology helping undo some bad ideas
The theological content is excellent and helpful in undoing some bad ideas, especially those prevalent in modern Evangelicalism.
It can be some dry reading/listening at times.
The reader does a good job, but doesn't sound quite like the author.
I would recommend this to any student of theology.
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- Robert Goertz
- 2019-03-12
Glorious and Weighty Theology in Layman’s terms
I appreciate Brad’s treatment of this important topic. I was raised “fundamentalist evangelical” and it has deeply scarred my view of God and probably how I raised my kids (Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy).
Brad does the hard work of helping us understand what the early church and the Eastern church believed about the Gospel and sheds light in dark places.
The good news that Brad shares is that: God is ALL good, and God is always for us” - What a different world this would be if all believed it.
I hope, with all of my heart, that Brad is right.
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