A Probing and Powerful Look at the Role You Play
in Shaping Your Relationship with God
"No matter how hard we look, the God of Israel cannot be seen. Looking
is not seeing, and seeing God is not like seeing an apple. It is much
more like making a medical diagnosis on the basis of looking at a
complex set of symptoms. Each of the symptoms is a dot. We can look at
the dots and still miss the pattern."
--from Part I
The Torah is replete with references to hearing God but precious few
references to seeing God. Seeing is complicated. What we look for and
see are traces of God's presence in the world and in history, but not
God. In order to identify those traces as reflections of divine
presence, we need to re-examine how we see, what we see, and how we
interpret that information.
In this challenging and inspiring look at the dynamics of the religious
experience, award-winning author and theologian Neil Gillman guides you
into a new way of seeing the complex patterns in the Bible, history, and
everyday experiences and helps you interpret what those patterns mean to
you and your relationship with God.
Examining faith and doubt, revelation and law, suffering and redemption,
Gillman candidly deconstructs familiar biblical moments in order to help
you develop and refine your own spiritual vision, so that you are able
to discern the presence of God in unanticipated ways.
