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No Shadow of Turning: The God Who Never Looks Away — A Biblical Theology of Divine Immutability - Couverture souple

Hill, Rev. Dr. Billy J.

 
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Synopsis

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change." — James 1:17

Some doctrines you study. This one you lean on.

When the floor gives way — in the hospital room, the prison block, the front pew of a funeral — no one reaches for an argument. They reach for a hand that will not let go. No Shadow of Turning is about the One whose hand never moves.

The church called it immutability: the truth that God does not change. But at its warm, living center, that granite word is a promise — that the Father of lights will never turn His face from His own. This is a full, seminary-level biblical theology of the unchanging God, written for the academy, the pulpit, and the pew alike, with the full weight of exegesis and the history of the church's thought — but never far from the bedside.

Across eighteen chapters, it traces the unchanging God through the whole of Scripture: the texts that trouble us, where God seems to "relent" and "change His mind"; the living Rock who is constant without being cold; the Word made flesh who suffered without ceasing to be God; the one dread hour the Father turned His face away from His own Son, so that He need never turn it from us; and the faithfulness you can stand on in the dark.

Rigorous enough for the seminary, warm enough for the deathbed. It includes a Hebrew and Greek lexicon of key terms, a classified bibliography, and a full Scripture index for study and preaching.

For everyone who has ever feared that God has finally looked away.

The lights of heaven all turn; the Father of lights does not.

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