Who Is God? Quotes

“We can answer the question “Who is God?” only by attending to who God has revealed himself to be.”
― Richard Bauckham, Who Is God? (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): Key Moments of Biblical Revelation

“At the outset of Jesus’s ministry God tore apart the curtain of the heavens in order to come down and be present and active in Jesus. At Jesus’s death he tore apart the curtain in the temple in order to come out and be present and active through Jesus in the world at large.”
― Richard Bauckham, Who Is God? (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): Key Moments of Biblical Revelation

“But for neither Moses nor Elijah did the opposition lead to violent death. Moses died peacefully and honored at an advanced age. Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind. But for Jesus the bitter opposition he is to encounter will lead to his being put to death, as he has just recently tried to get across to Peter and the others. Paradoxically, being the beloved Son puts him in a special category that entails his violent death. God did not let Moses or Elijah suffer such a fate, but his unique and dearly beloved Son—him God will hand over to mocking, torture, and an abandoned death.”
― Richard Bauckham, Who Is God? (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): Key Moments of Biblical Revelation

“Thereafter, the enduring form of God’s presence with his people is as the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus Christ, present and active within believers.”
― Richard Bauckham, Who Is God? (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): Key Moments of Biblical Revelation

“If Jacob is now to find himself apart from his family, if he is to find who he can be in this newly uncertain world in which he is alone, he must also now find God as his own God. Not that he thinks of this for himself. It is not Jacob who turns to God but God who turns to Jacob.”
― Richard Bauckham, Who Is God? (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): Key Moments of Biblical Revelation

“the LORD stood beside him” (i.e., Jacob;”
― Richard Bauckham, Who Is God? (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): Key Moments of Biblical Revelation

“Figure 1.”
― Richard Bauckham, Who Is God? (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): Key Moments of Biblical Revelation

“Always it refers to God’s favor and care for those he chooses to be “with.” It makes all the difference to their lives.”
― Richard Bauckham, Who Is God? (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): Key Moments of Biblical Revelation

“What is remarkable about Jacob’s dream is that he sees God not, as one would expect, at the top of the stairway but at the bottom.”
― Richard Bauckham, Who Is God? (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): Key Moments of Biblical Revelation