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Jenkins is well equipped for his task. He is wonderfully and widely read, and his capacity for doing the tough work of intellectual history is as well manifested in the notes as in the text. Students of the history of interpretation, theology, and the religious culture of America over the past century and one half will find this book of enormous interest. --The New England Quarterly ...an ambitious project whose main strength is its innovative treatment of many familiar American theologians in the context of literary and theological ways of thinking and modes of writing. All those interested in the ties between American theology and literature will be rewarded in reading this book. The Journal of American History Thomas E. Jenkins' The Character of God is an impressive...addition to this body of scholarship. Written in a vigorous, snappy style, The Character of God is an ambitious, opinionated book that deserves to be read by specialists and nonspecialists alike. --First Things Jenkin's elegant, succinct study sheds light on a theme infrequently treated these days: depictions of God in American literature. --American Literature Jenkins is well equipped for his task. He is wonderfully and widely read, and his capacity for doing the tough work of intellectual history is as well manifested in the notes as in the text. Students of the history of interpretation, theology, and the religious culture of America over the past century and one half will find this book of enormous interest. --The New England Quarterly ...an ambitious project whose main strength is its innovative treatment of many familiar American theologians in the context of literary and theological ways of thinking and modes of writing. All those interested in the ties between American theology and literature will be rewarded in reading this book. The Journal of American History Thomas E. Jenkins' The Character of God is an impressive...addition to this body of scholarship. Written in a vigorous, snappy style, The Character of God is an ambitious, opinionated book that deserves to be read by specialists and nonspecialists alike. --First Things Jenkin's elegant, succinct study sheds light on a theme infrequently treated these days: depictions of God in American literature. --American Literature

Jenkins expounds his exemplary theologians with proper seriousness in a masterly exposition backed by an immense range of reference and scholarly detail. What emerges without intrusive emphasis is the way governing ideas control our take on the text, and the way they can achieve life after death in theologies claiming contemporary relevance. There is a brilliant choice of texts to illustrate the pressure of a selective hermeneutic: the I AM THAT I AM of Exodus 3: 14, the encounters of Jesus with his mother, the cries of agony in the garden and of dereliction on the cross. David Martin, TLS

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