The God I Don't Understand

Short review: This is the second of Christopher Wright's books I have read recently and I will be reading more. This is a very pastoral book focused on showing us how to read scripture and understand both the limits of our knowledge and correct common misunderstandings about God. He takes four areas, 1) the problems of evil, 2) understanding how/why God destroyed Israel's neighbors in the Old Testament, 3) what we can know and understand about the crucifixion and 4) how to understand heaven, revelations and the after-life.

In some ways, the particular topics matter less than the way that Wright teaches us how to understand scripture and the limits of human knowledge. The end result is that Wright clearly says there are many things that he does not understand about God and that is OK. We will not understand God fully because he is God. That does not mean we should not strive after knowing God, but it does mean we should set up some boundaries about what it is possible to know about God.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/understand/