Our Awesome God

User-friendly theology

Our Awesome God
By Ken Campbell
Christian Focus Publications.
160 pages. £
ISBN 185 792318 9

Our Awesome God is described as: 'A user-friendly approach to the character and nature of God. Each of the 12 chapters looks at one aspect of God's character, reviews the doctrines that flow from it and discusses an appropriate response.' There are chapters such as 'Who made God? - the attribute of aseity', 'Why is there not Nothing? -the attribute of creativity', and 'The How-To God - the attribute of wisdom'.
Ken Campbell is a professor in the biblical Studies department of Belhaven College, Jackson, in the USA. I imagine Our Awesome God was designed as a stepping stone to greater things, as a help for the very new Christian or young teenager. Most of it is written quite simply. There are some good thoughts expressed. There is a plentiful scattering of illustrations and quotations, but they left me feeling that they were included to make an easy read, for I did not always see how they connected with the point being made. Sometimes I felt that big issues were treated far too superficially, and that the discussion questions at the end of each chapter did not stimulate the reader to think more deeply, but merely to reiterate what had just been read.
I'm not sure that this is the book I would pass on to someone I was wanting to consider the attributes of God, but I would be encouraged to hear that such a person had read it!

Roger Carswell

© Evangelicals Now - May 1998
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Main Articles

• Churches and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
  The provision of facilities in church buildings for disabled people
• A still small voice about sex
  An account of one parent's action at a preview of a new school course in sexuality
• Mad for it in Manchester
  An interview with Andy Hawthorne of The World Wide Message Tribe about evangelistic outreach among teenagers in Manchester
• After God's funeral
  Extracts from a talk given by Ravi Zacharias on the problem of moral relativism which follows atheism
• Why DO we go to church?
  The meaning of worship in the Old Testament and New Testament and its implications for our Sunday services
• By faith - the life of George Muller remembered
  An account of the life of George Muller the great Brethren philanthropist
• Eastern orthodoxy
  A brief history of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Orthodox church in Britain and evangelical witness to Greeks in London
• How are we to learn? (Bulldog for May)
  Ten points concerning teaching and preaching in the church with reference to the New Testament

Other articles

• News of the Hour (Marks Gospel)
• Gattaca
• IVP New Testament Commentary Series - Matthew
• Making Progress in Church Life
• Desert Child - or just how amusing can a nightmare be?
• Picking Up The Pieces - can evangelicals adapt to contemporary culture?
• Farm Sermons
• True Happiness - Exposition of Psalm 1
• Promise Keepers - and the rising tide of ecumenism
• The End of Science - Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age
• A Guide to the Puritans
• Pathway Through Grief - Ten accounts of people's experience following bereavement reviewed by Carol Gulliford and Barbara Morland
• At Break of Day
• Our Awesome God