Ebook
Do you want to be close to God? The answer to a question like this is wrapped up in knowing what God is like, understanding the reasons for why God acts as he does, and learning how to promote God's goals for creation. In this short book, readers will explore issues about the nature of God, consider why God would create anything at all, and why God would create this particular universe. Through a mixture of devotional insight and philosophical analysis, one will come to a better understanding of the majesty of God.
“An elegant and creative book, combining both philosophical and spiritual insights. Mullins articulates his own model of God; puts it in conversation with various existential issues; and draws out its implications—all with a lightness of touch that makes for easy reading even when the topics addressed are amongst the most profound which the human mind can contemplate.”
—T. J. Mawson, tutor in philosophy, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford
“This book is an outstanding treatment of issues in the doctrine of God by one of the leading scholars in that area. With his characteristic wit and incisiveness, Mullins takes readers on an illuminating tour of some of the thorniest questions about God in philosophical theology, offering a rare combination of profound insight and extremely clear and accessible writing. Anyone—from scholars to general readers—interested in who God is and how God relates to creation will benefit from this work.”
—John C. Peckham, research professor of theology and Christian philosophy, Andrews University
R. T. Mullins is a lecturer and researcher in philosophy and theology at the University of Lucerne. He is the author of The End of the Timeless God (2016) and God and Emotion (2020).