God's Rivals - by Gerald R McDermott (Paperback)

About the Book

Gerald R. McDermott explores the question, "Why are there other religions?" He looks at teaching from the Old and New Testaments and from a number of key teachers from the early church to suggest an answer to this perplexing but intriguing question.

Book Synopsis

Gerald R. McDermott explores the question, "Why are there other religions?" He looks at teaching from the Old and New Testaments and from a number of key teachers from the early church to suggest an answer to this perplexing but intriguing question.

Review Quotes

". . . A timely, readable book detailing fruitfully with an issue of increasingly critical importance."

". . .a timely, readable book dealing fruitfully with an issue of increasingly critical importance."

". . .highly recommended for students and Christian leaders and should be required reading for missionaries and evangelists."

"Every chapter starts with a short summarizing view on the chapter's topic or main protagonist; afterward, step by step, he describes the most important things to know, starting with an interesting example or invented dialogue that easily catches the reader's attention and offers him exciting access to the topic."

"God's Rivals presents in engaging, lucid style considerable biblical and historical information unfamiliar to most evangelicals. McDermott helps believers see how they can interact significantly with people in other religious systems."

"It is this perennial--and perennially controversial--question that McDermott's new book, God's Rivals, addresses with the same winsomeness and user-friendly clarity that made the earlier book [Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?] a success."

"This is a fascinating summary and examination og the origin of world religions and how the Bible and the early church fathers perceived them. God's Rivals provides helpful perspective on sharing Christ's primacy with clarity and sensitivity."

"While in recent years the theology of religions has risen to the center of theological reflection and there is a steady flow of publications on various aspects of the topic, McDermott is writing about an issue so crucial that it can be easily missed, namely, Why has God allowed religions? This is the first major work on the topic essential to all interested in the relation of Christian faith to other faiths. Building on a careful scrutiny of biblical and some patristic sources, McDermott has produced an intriguing book meant not only for specialists but for everyone wanting to know more about religion's role in a Christian perspective."

About the Author

Gerald R. McDermott (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is professor of religion at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He is the author of Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions? One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards and Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion and Non-Christian Faiths.