A distinguished Old Testament scholar, Terence E. Fretheim has long been a leading voice in Old Testament theology. What Kind of God? forwards thirty of Fretheim’s classic studies, gathering them for the first time under the rubrics “God and the World,” “God and Suffering,” “God, Wrath, and Divine Violence,” “God and the Pentateuch,” “God and the Prophets,” and “God and the Church’s Book.”

This collection of Fretheim’s essays offers seminarians and scholars a compelling answer to the question that has motivated Fretheim’s work for more than forty yearsnamely, what kind of God is the God of Scripture? The studies are introduced by a critical overview of Fretheim’s career and theology by editors Michael J. Chan and Brent A. Strawn and a retrospective by Fretheim himself.