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God’s Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church. By Gerald R. McDermott. Downers Grove, Illinois, US, InterVarsity Press 2007. Pp. 181. $18.00.

God’s Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early... 106 Book Reviews / Mission Studies 27 (2010) 91–138 God’s Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Diff erent Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church. By Gerald R. McDermott. Downers Grove, Illinois, US, InterVarsity Press 2007. Pp. 181. $18.00. McDermott, a professor of religion at Roanoke College in Virginia, published Can Evan- gelicals Learn from World Religions? in 2001, and God’s Rivals is an admirable addition to his investigations into the theology of religions. McDermott’s chapter titles include the following: “Th e scandal of particularity: why has the true God come to only some people at some times?,” “Not even in Israel have I found such faith: surprising knowledge of God among Bible people outside Israel and the church,” and “A divine gift to the Greeks: Clement of Alexandria and the Gentile covenants.” Other chapters examine the approach to other gods in the Bible and in the writings of other early church writers. Th ese titles and themes, along with an appendix entitled “God and the masculine pronoun,” show the scope of McDermott’s eff orts to review the world religions in relation to God from biblical and early church sources. Chapters one and two explore whether adherents http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mission Studies Brill

God’s Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church. By Gerald R. McDermott. Downers Grove, Illinois, US, InterVarsity Press 2007. Pp. 181. $18.00.

Mission Studies , Volume 27 (1): 106 – Jan 1, 2010

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© 2010 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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106 Book Reviews / Mission Studies 27 (2010) 91–138 God’s Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Diff erent Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church. By Gerald R. McDermott. Downers Grove, Illinois, US, InterVarsity Press 2007. Pp. 181. $18.00. McDermott, a professor of religion at Roanoke College in Virginia, published Can Evan- gelicals Learn from World Religions? in 2001, and God’s Rivals is an admirable addition to his investigations into the theology of religions. McDermott’s chapter titles include the following: “Th e scandal of particularity: why has the true God come to only some people at some times?,” “Not even in Israel have I found such faith: surprising knowledge of God among Bible people outside Israel and the church,” and “A divine gift to the Greeks: Clement of Alexandria and the Gentile covenants.” Other chapters examine the approach to other gods in the Bible and in the writings of other early church writers. Th ese titles and themes, along with an appendix entitled “God and the masculine pronoun,” show the scope of McDermott’s eff orts to review the world religions in relation to God from biblical and early church sources. Chapters one and two explore whether adherents

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