Description: About the Contributor(s): Barry D. Smith is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Crandall University in New Brunswick, Canada. He is the author of The Indescribable God: Divine Otherness in Christian Theology (2012) and What Must We Do to Be Saved? Paul Parts Company with His Jewish Heritage (2007).
Brief description: Barry D. Smith is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Crandall University in New Brunswick, Canada. He is the author of Jesus' Twofold Teaching about the Kingdom of God (2009) and What Must We Do to Be Saved? Paul Parts Company with His Jewish Heritage (2007).
Review Quotes: Steeped in Scripture and utterly conversant with philosophical strategies from ancient to contemporary, Barry Smith has canvassed reasons old and new, for and against, insisting that God must be simple. A skilled teacher could use this study to introduce students into the intricacies of philosophical theology, while leading them to see how the 'point of it all'--characterizing a free creator in relation to creatures--can sometimes elude so detailed a study, though apophatic finally wins.
--David Burrell, Hesburgh Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame