Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Subtitled “The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam,” A History of God is billed as a comparative ...

I was raised on God. That sounds rather strange to say, but from early years I heard stories of one particular God who some call “The God of the Bible.” This Father in Heaven loved me, gave me a ...

“When He comes He will convict the world of sin.…” This was Jesus’ promise as he told of the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The world of our day is strangely unconvicted, unconvinced, and unconcerned, ...