God BC

96pp. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine.  8vo. Lightly bumped top front corner. Cocked. Top text block edge dusty. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped.

The Bishop of London’s Lent Book for 1977. A convincing, lucid, original account of the stages in the Israelites’ understanding of the God with whom they had to deal. It shows how early theological concepts, and particularly the idea of the chosen people, were radically altered by the calamitous experience of the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile in Babylon. Finally it explains how the New Testament confirms the Old in revealing the one unchanging God in the person of Jesus Christ, ‘who acknowledges as his father the jealous God of Sanai’.