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STEVENSON, L., Eighteen Takes on God. A Short Guide for Those Who Are Still Perplexed. Oxford University Press, 2019. 208p. Hardback. Philosopher Leslie Stevenson offers a concise, lucid and irenic survey of approaches to the question of God. What does it mean to call God a person, or to say that God is simple? Does God exist independently of us? When believers say that God created the world, are they referring to an initiatory act or to an ongoing relationship to God which sustains the world at every moment? Stevenson is especially sensitive to both the power and the limitations of interpreting theology in metaphorical terms. Ranging widely, Stevenson occasionally misfires-he doesn't seem to grasp that Maimonides's version of negative theology, for example, is far more radical than that of Aquinas. But this is, on the whole, a beautiful little book overflowing with ideas for reflection and contemplation. Christian Century |a 20/05/2021 (Publisher's information). € 33.28 (New) (approx. delivery time: 14 days) ISBN: 9780190066109