This book takes on today's prevailing misconceptions about who God is by boldly stating who God is not. Rodney Clapp critiques pop culture's anthem to a slobby, ineffective 'God like us,' while D. Stephen Long, in 'God Is Not Nice,' questions our therapy-fed longing for a useful, non-threatening deity. If God is not an American or a capitalist or 'religious,' as contributors Michael Baxter, Mick Budde, and William T. Cavanaugh go on to argue, then who is God? Laytham concludes with a stirring essay on who God is, calling the church to visibly demonstrate where its primary allegiance lies. Audacious without being rude, this book is a lively, necessary, and intelligently reverent read.
