Chapter 1: The God Who Made Everything
[1]. Ron Rosenbaum, “Is the Big Bang Just a Big Hoax? David Berlinski Challenges Everyone,” New York Observer, June 7, 1998. This article providing a brief summary of Berlinski and his work can be found online at http://www.observer.com/node/40610.
[2]. Sometimes in the Old Testament, i.e., in the first two-thirds of the Bible, the word “Lord” is found in small capital letters, like this: Lord. Where that happens, as in the sentence just quoted, there is a particular Hebrew word behind it, a name for God often transliterated in English as “Yahweh.” The name means something like “I am” or “I am what I am.”
Chapter 2: The God Who Does Not Wipe Out Rebels
[1]. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” in The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes (New York: Doubleday, 1930), 268.
[2]. F. Derek Kidner, Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1981), 68.
[3]. Augustine, The City of God, vol. 2, Everyman’s Library ed. (London: J. M. Dent, 1945), 9–10.
[4]. Blaise Pascal, Pensées, ed. A. J. Krailsheimer (London: Penguin, 1995), 34.
[5]. Daniel L. Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004), 139.
Chapter 4: The God Who Legislates
[1]. A millennium and a half later, the apostle Paul would make exactly the same points about the function of law in the sweep of the Bible’s storyline (see Galatians 3).
[2]. Remember this pair of words: they will show up again in chapter 7.
Chapter 6: The God Who Is Unfathomably Wise
[1]. This is usually attributed to Daniel O’Connell in the eighteenth century, following Plato.
Chapter 7: The God Who Becomes a Human Being
[1]. One New Testament document infers exactly that point: Hebrews 8:13.
Chapter 8: The God Who Grants New Birth
[1]. Ronald J. Sider, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience: Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World? (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005).
Chapter 9: The God Who Loves
[1]. John Shelby Spong, Jesus for the Non-Religious: Recovering the Divine at the Heart of the Human (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007), 277.
[2]. John Piper, “Ganging Up on Gratitude,” Desiring God, November 21, 2007, http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2007/2504_Ganging-Up_on_Gratitude/.
[3]. Francis Thompson, “The Hound of Heaven,” online at http://bartelby.net/236/239.html.
[4]. Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory,” in Collected Poems (New York: MacMillan, 1921). Available online at www.bartleby.com/233.
[5]. Malcolm Muggeridge, Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith, ed. Cecil Kuhne (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2005), 97.
Chapter 10: The God Who Dies—and Lives Again
[1]. I include more sustained exposition of these two passages in my book Scandalous: The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus (Wheaton: Crossway, 2010).
[2]. Fareed Zakaria, “To Hell in a Handbasket,” review of A Thread of Years by John Lacaks, New York Times, April 19, 1998, http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/nyt/041998.html.
[3]. Edward Shillito, “Jesus of the Scars,” in Jesus of the Scars and Other Poems (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1919).
[4]. This was discussed in chapter 6.
Chapter 11: The God Who Declares the Guilty Just
[1]. Todd Wilken, “God Is Just: The Art of Self-Justification,” Modern Reformation 16/5 (Sept./Oct. 2007): 31.
[2]. J. Budziszewski, “Escape from Nihilism,” re:generation Quarterly 4/1 (1998): 13–14.
[3]. For a slightly fuller exposition of Romans 3:21–26, see my book Scandalous: The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus.
[4]. D. A. Carson, Holy Sonnets of the Twentieth Century (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994), 101.
Chapter 12: The God Who Gathers and Transforms His People
[1]. Alister McGrath, The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World (New York: Doubleday, 2004).
[2]. Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (New York: Dutton, 2008), 57.
[3]. See Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture: A World View (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 210–14.
[4]. Perhaps because this was taken down from one of his sermons, this quotation has come down to us in several forms. Compare, for instance, Joseph Foulkes Winks, ed., The Christian Pioneer 10 (1856): 84; and Josiah Bull, The Life of John Newton (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2007 [1868]), 289.
[5]. Amy Carmichael, “No Scars?” from Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael, © 1999 by the Dohnavur Fellowship. Used by permission of CLC Publications. May not be further reproduced. All rights reserved.
[6]. National Review 60, no. 7 (April 21, 2008): 12.
[7]. Matthew Parris, “As an Atheist, I Truly Believe Africa Needs God,” Times Online, December 27, 2008, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece.
Chapter 13: The God Who Is Very Angry
[1]. The sermon has been reprinted many times in many places. An accessible version is the booklet by Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1992), 12.
[2]. See for example the useful treatment by Douglas A. Sweeney, Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2009), 132–36.
Chapter 14: The God Who Triumphs
[1]. John Masefield, “Sea-Fever,” Salt Water Ballads, 1902.
[2]. Carrie E. Breck, “Face to Face with Christ, My Savior,” 1898.
[3]. Roger Whittaker, “My Love, Cape Breton, and Me,” Roger Whittaker’s Greatest Hits, audiocassette, RCA AYK1-4743, 1972.