The Problem of God: Yesterday and Today

By John Courtney Murray

Book Overview

"A gem of a book--lucid, illuminating, brilliantly written."--Paul Weiss In an urbane and persuasive tract for our time, the distinguished Catholic theologian John Murray combines a comprehensive... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006AYNRU
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Spiritual Classic

The Problem of God is a deceptive book. Slight in pages, it presents as a modest group of lectures on Biblical experiences of God. In fact, the book may well represent one of the most profound meditations on God and man's reaction to God produced by the modern church. I first read this book while in seminary. I find that I return to its insights again and again.

The Dearth of God

The problem of God can be briefly stated as the difficulty in knowing God's existence and man's relationship to God. This book examines the development of this problem through the biblical period and into modernity. It is a short book, so it paints with broad strokes through several human periods, but overall I think it provides an adequate depiction of man's quest, in particular of modern atheism and it's relationship to God.