Best-selling author Robert Farrar Capon uncovers God’s presence in the clues of history.
How do we understand God? The Trinity? The basic tenets of the Christian faith? Much of the time we use images to think about them—and much of the time, unfortunately, they are the wrong images. In his newest work Robert Farrar Capon takes readers on a fascinating sleuthing project, developing a history of images to find evidence of the Divine Suspect in our midst.
Capon first explores various images that prompt proper talk about God and the nature of Scripture. The Bible, he says, is the mystery story of God’s hidden presence as the Divine Suspect behind all history. In the second half of the book Capon turns his magnifying glass on major thinkers throughout the course of church history—Irenaeus, Athanasius, Anselm, Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, Julian of Norwich, and others—pointing out both the strong and the weak images of God that they have produced.
Novel, wise, and written in the entertaining style for which Robert Farrar Capon is well known, The Fingerprints of God offers an engaging presentation of faith and the host of images that either strengthen or erode it.