The Domestication of Transcendence: How Modern Thinking about God Went Wrong
Placher (theology, Wabash Coll.) argues that much contemporary discourse about God is directed at a mistaken understanding of the classical Christian doctrines of God. Placher uses the doctrines formulated by Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin to recapture a sense of God's transcendence in the modern age. Placher's book is an elegant theological essay that exposes the wealth of Christian history as well as the bankruptcy of much modern God-talk. Recommended for most libraries.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.