God's Rivals

Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church

By Gerald R. McDermott

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 181 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: February 2007

ISBN-10: 0-8308-2564-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2564-6
IVP Order Code: 2564

Related Subjects

World Religions

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Scandal of Particularity: Why Has the True God Come to Only Some People at Some Times?
2. Not Even in Israel Have I Found Such Faith: Surprising Knowledge of God Among Bible People Outside Israel and the Church
3. The Lord of Hosts: The Old Testament and the Real Existence of Other Gods
4. Principalities and Powers: The New Testament on Other Real Supernatural Powers Besides God
5. Seeds of the Word: Justin Martyr on Seeds of the Word in Other Religions
6. Divine Pedagogy: Irenaeus Explains How God Uses the Religions
7. A Divine Gift to the Greeks: Clement of Alexandria and the Gentile Covenants
8. Diverse Destinies by Diverse Choices: Origen's Warnings About Other Religions
9. What Are the Religions? And Why Are They There?: Collecting the Strands

Appendix: God and the Masculine Pronoun
Author and Subject Index
Scripture Index