Dr. Daniel J. Peterson is an independent scholar and a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He is the author of Tillich: A Brief Overview of the Life and Writings of Paul Tillich and coeditor of Resurrecting the Death of God. His articles and reviews have appeared in Dialog, Religious Studies, and Theology and Science.
"In this great adventure of (re)discovery, Daniel Peterson leads us into startlingly fresh zones of theological possibility. The reader is drawn not into a new polytheism but into an ancient and novel polymorphism of God. In Petersons theopoetics of silence, maternity, eros, apophasis, and weakness, the divinity hidden in plain (scriptural) sight begins to reveal themself." --Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew Theological School, and author of No Matter What: Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility
"The biblical writers offer various options for conceptualizing God, but not all options are created equal. Daniel Peterson identifies pictures of God that biblical interpreters typically ignore, overlook, or trivialize. The often-lost portraits of God that he uncovers liberate those who have assumed deity must be male, almighty, and absolutely transcendent." --Thomas Jay Oord, author of The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence
"Lost Gods of the Bible offers the reader a disturbingly beautiful theological excavation of the biblical text-an excavation that uncovers a stranger, weaker, more unsettling God than the one that appears on the surface. This is a book for anyone who suspects that the death of the religious God might allow another, more fragile divinity to appear." --Peter Rollins, author of Insurrection: To Believe Is Human. To Doubt, Divine; The Idolatry of God; and The Divine Magician
"Lost Gods of the Bible has the courage to unearth biblical images of God that challenge nearly everything the biblical God is thought to mean. This is an important resource for atheists, theists, pantheists, polytheists, and antitheists alike." --Mary-Jane Rubenstein, author of Astroptopia, Pantheologies, Worlds Without End, and Strange Wonder
"There are books that challenge biblical studies and the public long-term. And there are books that intervene at just the right moment. Dr. Petersons book does both. It interrupts the popular Christian convention of a convenient god. It exposes surface readings of God in the Bible, uncovering images of God that challenge our era, images that perhaps have always been there waiting to emerge at the right moment." --Matthew G. Whitlock, associate professor, New Testament, Seattle University
"Many people have rejected God without realizing they were rejecting a version of God the Bible itself often challenges. In Lost Gods of the Bible, Daniel Peterson draws on Scripture and scholarship to uncover overlooked images of the divine hidden within its pages. Thought-provoking and accessible, this book invites readers to approach familiar texts with fresh eyes and a renewed sense of curiosity about the mystery we call God." --Rev. Joseph Yoo, pastor of Mosaic Episcopal Church, Pearland, TX, and author of When the Saints Go Flying In
