Overview

Walter Cardinal Kasper has written, “It is time, it is the right time, to speak of God.”  This book invites readers to use their God-given ability to work through important questions that many people have about God today: Why is God so angry in the Bible?  Is the biblical God male or female (or what)?  Who is Satan?  Why do people suffer?  By exploring the Bible’s answers to these and other biblical questions, people can come to understand better their living and loving God.

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Smith not only asks questions that we all have about God, and some excellent ones most people have probably not imagined; he also offers answers with theological and pastoral sensitivity and depth. All kinds of readers will find themselves enriched by Smith's clarity and his sensible, yet learned, reflections. Jacqueline E. LapsleyAssociate Professor of Old TestamentPrinceton Theological Seminary

Mark Smith has now turned his considerable expertise and scholarship to the question of How Human Is God? Certainly a challenging subject to attempt to write about and interesting to read about! . . . Smith delves not only into gender and sexuality but also into areas such as anger, suffering as punishment, the demonic, and so much more. In these areas his approach is reflective, even sometimes philosophical. The book is easy to read because the impressive scholarship on which it rests is largely contained in the copious footnotes rather than argued in the text. Joseph Jensen, OSB Professor Emeritus of Scripture The Catholic University of America Monk of St. Anselm's

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Mark S. Smith is professor of Bible and ancient Near Eastern studies at New York University.  Previously he taught at Yale University, Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, and Saint Paul Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota.  Author or co-author of eighteen books, he is past president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America.

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