The God Who Is for Us (Paperback)

Oliver D. Crisp

ISBN 10: 0310173906 / ISBN 13: 9780310173908

Published by Zondervan, 2025

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Paperback. How should we think about God For Christianity, God is not merely the transcendent source and creator of the world; God is also immanently involved in creation, sustaining, upholding, and intervening in the cosmos in order to save and redeem beloved creatures. God is for us.The inaugural Scottish Dogmatics Conference explores this dimension of the character and nature of God in dialogue with Scripture and the Christian tradition and in pursuit of constructive theology for today.Contributors include:John BehrBruce McCormackAmy PeelerFred SandersJudith Wolfe Based on the inaugural Scottish Dogmatics Conference, this volume explores the Christian belief that God is not merely the transcendent creator of the world, but is also the God who is for us, immanently involved in creation, sustaining, upholding, and intervening in the cosmos in order to save and redeem beloved creatures. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The God Who Is for Us (Paperback)
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0310173906
• ISBN 13: 9780310173908
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

How should we think about God? For Christianity, God is not merely the transcendent source and creator of the world; God is also immanently involved in creation, sustaining, upholding, and intervening in the cosmos in order to save and redeem beloved creatures. God is for us.

The inaugural Scottish Dogmatics Conference explores this dimension of the character and nature of God in dialogue with Scripture and the Christian tradition and in pursuit of constructive theology for today.

Contributors include:

• John Behr
• Bruce McCormack
• Amy Peeler
• Fred Sanders
• Judith Wolfe

About the Authors

Oliver D. Crisp (PhD, University of London; DLitt University of Aberdeen) is Professor of Analytic Theology at the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology, St. Mary's College, the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is author of numerous books in analytic and systematic theology, including Analyzing Doctrine: Toward a Systematic Theology; Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology; Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered; God Incarnate: Explorations in Christology; Retrieving Doctrine: Essays in Reformed Theology; and Revisioning Christology: Theology in the Reformed Tradition. Together with Fred Sanders, he is co-founder of the Los Angeles Theology Conference.

Paul T. Nimmo (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is Professor and King’s Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and the co-director of the Aberdeen Centre for Protestant Theology. He is the author of Being in Action: The Theological Shape of Barth’s Ethical Vision and Barth: A Guide for the Perplexed, as well as the co-editor of Kenosis: The Self-Emptying of Christ in Scripture and Theology, The Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth, and The Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology. He is also the senior editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology.