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description: Infanticide. Holy war. Divine wrath. Violence in the Old Testament has long been a stumbling block for Christians and skeptics alike. Yet conventional efforts to understand this violencewhether by downplaying it as allegory or a relic of primitive cultures or by dismissing the authority of Scripture altogethertend to raise more questions than they answer. God Is a Man of War offers a fresh interpretation of Old Testament accounts of violence by exploring them through the twofold lens of Orthodox tradition and historical context. Father Stephen De Young examines what these difficult passages reveal about the nature of Christ and His creation bearing witness to a world filled not only with pain and sufferingoften of human makingbut also with the love of God.
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title: God Is a Man of War: The Problem of Violence in the Old Testament
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