ISBN - 0 85234 582 8

Know Your God
Linleigh J. Roberts
Large Paperback    320 pp

Nothing better explains the world in which we live than the fact that modern society is almost totally bereft of the knowledge of God. To make matters worse, the church itself is losing touch with the revelation of God in Holy Scripture. The church does not know her God and many characteristics of modern evangelical life are directly attributable to that ignorance. Nothing is so calculated to enfeeble the church as a diminished or faulty conception of God himself.

   In this fine study Linleigh Roberts sets out to reintroduce the church to her God by exploring the revelation of God given in the first five books of the Bible. There is a good reason to begin with the Pentateuch in thinking about God. Here, at the headwaters of biblical revelation, we are taught to think of everything in relation to God: life and death, good and evil, salvation and judgement. What is more, the presentation of God in these first books of the Bible concentrates on precisely those attributes of his being and character that are fundamental to the true understanding of everything else that is taught in Holy Scripture.

   In demonstrating this Roberts explains why the knowledge of God lies at the foundation of all faith and all right living. Because all roads lead from God and to God this study is nothing less than an introduction to reality, as are the five books of the Bible on which it is based. Know Your God is marked by faithfulness to the text of Holy Scripture, careful scholarship, consecrated thinking, suggestive applications and wonderfully clear prose punctuated with helpful illustrations and apt quotations. This is historic Christian theology presented in a fresh and timely way.

              Dr Robert Rayburn, pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church, Tacoma, WA., USA

Linleigh J. Roberts is an Australian living in the USA. He is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Columbia Bible College (now Columbia International University) and Covenant Theological Seminary. In addition to being ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America, he has served for several years as director of Biblical Foundations, International. After teaching in many countries, he is now retired. He is married and has five children and fourteen grandchildren