Is God a Moral Monster?
by Copan, PaulFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-01-01
Publisher(s): Baker Pub Group
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Summary
Is the God of the Old Testament Nothing but a Bully, a Murderer, and an Oppressor? Many today-even within the church-seem to think so. How are Christians to respond to such accusations? And how are we to reconcile the seemingly disconnected natures of God portrayed in the testaments?
Author Biography
Paul Copan (PhD, Marquette University) is the Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida. He is the author or editor of many books, including When God Goes to Starbucks.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 11 |
| Neo-Atheism | |
| Who Are the New Atheists? | p. 15 |
| The New Atheists and the Old Testament God | p. 20 |
| God: Gracious Master or Moral Monster? | |
| Great Appetite for Praise and Sacrifices? Divine Arrogance or Humility? | p. 27 |
| Monumental Rage and Kinglike Jealousy? Understanding the Covenant-Making God | p. 34 |
| Child Abuse and Bullying? God's Ways and the Binding of Isaac | p. 42 |
| Life in the Ancient Near East and in Israel | |
| God's Timeless Wisdom? Incremental Steps for Hardened Hearts | p. 57 |
| The Bible's Ubiquitous Weirdness? Kosher Foods, Kooky Laws? (I) | p. 70 |
| The Bible's Ubiquitous Weirdness? Kosher Foods, Kooky Laws? (II) | p. 79 |
| Barbarisms, Crude Laws, and Other Imaginary Crimes? Punishments and Other Harsh Realities in Perspective | p. 87 |
| Misogynistic? Women in Israel | p. 101 |
| Bride-Price? Polygamy, Concubinage, and Other Such Questions | p. 110 |
| Warrant for Trafficking in Humans as Farm Equipment? (I): Slavery in Israel | p. 124 |
| Warrant for Trafficking in Humans as Farm Equipment? (II): Challenging Texts on Slavery | p. 135 |
| Warrant for Trafficking in Humans as Farm Equipment? (III): Slavery in the New Testament | p. 150 |
| Indiscriminate Massacre and Ethnic Cleansing? The Killing of the Canaanites (I) | p. 158 |
| Indiscriminate Massacre and Ethnic Cleansing? The Killing of the Canaanites (II) | p. 169 |
| Indiscriminate Massacre and Ethnic Cleansing? The Killing of the Canaanites (III) | p. 186 |
| The Root of All Evil? Does Religion Cause Violence? | p. 198 |
| Sharpening the Moral Focus | |
| Morality without a Lawgiving God? The Divine Foundation of Goodness | p. 209 |
| We Have Moved beyond This God (Haven't We?): Jesus as the Fulfiller of the Old Testament | p. 216 |
| Discussion/Study Questions | p. 223 |
| Notes | p. 235 |
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