The Pursuit of Excellence and the Character of God

Yesterday I picked up a copy of Andreas Köstenberger's new book, Excellence: The Character of God and the Pursuit of Scholarly Virtue. I'm only in the earliest pages, so this is by no means a review (though you can almost certainly expect one), but you know a book's got you hooked when you notice the first chapter's subtitle:

"The character of God is the grounds of all human excellence."

Read that again and let it really sink in. It's going to start messing with you right about…

Now.

It's...