THE LORD IS GOOD
Seeking the God of the Psalter
By Christopher R. J. Holmes
Apollos. 198 pages. £16.99
ISBN 978 1 783 596 577
This is not so much a book that enables us to understand how the Psalter presents God as one that explores one attribute of God – his goodness – from the standpoint of systematic and historical theology.
Leaning heavily on Thomas Aquinas and (to a lesser extent) Augustine, and also engaging with Karl Barth, the author purports to ‘revitalise attention to the importance of attending to some classical and medieval distinctions in the doctrine of God’ (p.187). He is ‘metaphysically motivated’ (p.86), as opposed, it seems, to being driven by direct, ‘bottom-up’ exegesis of Scripture.
