God: A New Biography

Cover\nTitle\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nList of Plates\nAcknowledgements\nPrologue\n1. The Transcendent God\n	The holiness of God\n	The creation of the gods and the god of creation\n	In the image of God\n	God the destroyer\n	God the lawmaker\n	Divine doom and prophetic gloom\n	The God of Jesus\n	Allah and Muhammad the Prophet\n2. The God–Man\n	Monotheism\n	Exalted beings\n	Trinitarian puzzles\n	Christological crises\n	Refining the spirit\n	Of God and man\n3. The God Within\n	An other-worldly realm\n	Moses and Plato\n	The God who emanates\n	Love in a cold climate\n	Becoming a God\n	Sufism\n	Kabbalah\n4. The God of Reason and Revelation\n	Guides to the perplexing – Maimonides, Averroes and Aquinas\n	From world to God\n	From ‘God’ to God\n	The divine persona\n	God and evil\n	The best of all possible worlds\n5. The God of Wrath, Mercy and Justice\n	Athens in decline\n	Damned if you do and…\n	A very particular judge\n	God the terminator\n	God the saviour of all\n6. The Designer God\n	Reason revisited\n	The God of everything\n	An innate God\n	Revelation ‘naturalised’\n	God, providence and the cessation of miracles\n	Did God work miracles?\n	God, providence, watches and evolution\n7. The Known and Unknown God\n	Agnosticism\n	The return of immanence\n	God and world topsy-turvy\n	The delusions of Dawkins\n	The death of God\n	Separating God and nature\n	The deity who adapts\nEpilogue: An Agnostic Spirituality\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex