The elusive presence: Toward a new Biblical theology

by Samuel L. Terrien

Genres: Theology

511 pages, Hardcover

First published June 14, 1978

Reviews

[R. Fox]

It proceeds with an interesting thesis---central to the Old Testament canon is the hidden/elusive presence of God---but it starts hot and continually loses steam. Also, it's wholesale assumption of and constant referencing to the documentary hypothesis becomes mind-numbing about a third of the way through the book. It's really a shame. The basic thesis has really shaped my thoughts about the OT/HB, but the attempt to have it both ways (i.e., an a-historical reading of the OT through historically reconstructed, theoretical sources) fails miserably on multiple levels.