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God the Worlds Future Rev Ed

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This book is easily one of the best overviews of the history of theological thought currently available. It is especially useful in that Dr. Peters is one of the first to grapple with post-modern theological thinking and its implications. Dr. Peters is particularly insightful in his explication of prolepsis, the idea that God is drawing us all toward a future which God has envisioned. There will be much food for thought here, especially for those seeking some support of orthodoxy without closing the door to other theological trends. I have not only found it helpful for my own study, but have used it to help answer tough questions from my parishioners

This book was the book that opened my eyes to the intelligibility of Christianity and the spiritual gifts that can be found therein. I was quite a skeptic before reading this book. But, being a woman of my times, he spoke straight to the "hermeneutical gap" that exists for so many of us growing up in the postmodern philosophical paradigm.

Peters spoke at my seminary a few years after I got my hands on this book. A gifted Lutheran and a man who luckily does not have his head in the sand concerning contemporary plights and religious thought.

When I started reading this book I thought "oh, hum, more new age drivel from a mainline denomination liberal". What I found was a wonderfully crafted and thought provoking treatise on the Trinity, on the real presence of God in our midst bordering on mysticism, which is a good thing because I feel mainline denominations are too bound with seeking "knowledge" which increases faith in self instead of increasing faith in God. Not for the faint of heart or for the beginner.

I had hign hopes for this book but the more I read the more I was disappointed. I realized this was a book more suited for 1960's hippies than the contemporary theologian. His theology is a mile wide and 1/2" deep.