In a lengthy discussion of Exodus 3, Moberly argues that the mystery that is God “can be known but is yet beyond knowledge”. Drawing parallels with the Prologue of John’s Gospel, he describes wisdom and word “active within creation, no less now than then”, Nevertheless, “one can only acquire knowledge about God by engaging with God.” His first text is Proverbs 8.22-31, which sees wisdom as God’s agent in creation. He rightly recognises that “an understanding of God necessarily affects one’s understanding of what it means to be human in this world.” His concern is to validate their reading as Christian scripture. In six chapters, he isolates passages from Israel’s scriptures which speak about the nature of God as wise, mysterious, just, inscrutable, the only God, and trustworthy. THE author describes his work as “a book about God”.
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