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This brief and informative tour narrates how the doctrine of God has evolved through three thousand years of religious history. Capetz skillfully traces the sweeping insights and tumultuous tensions that underlay the Christian doctrine and remain with us still. He shows clearly how the personal, changeable, involved God of the Hebrew Bible transformed decisively in its encounter with Greek metaphysical concepts and with the emerging early Christian understanding of the Trinity. And he shows how, since the Reformation and Enlightenment and into the contemporary world, Christians have continued their quest to understand the elusive divine.