Your God Is Too Small: A Guide for Believers and Skeptics Alike

By J.B. Phillips

This forty-year-old Christian classic and bestseller is a study group favorite; this book challenges readers’ conventional views about God and encourages them to search for a meaningful redefinition of a higher power that is relevant to contemporary existence.

Your God is Too Small is a groundbreaking work of faith, which challenges the constraints of traditional religion. In his discussion of God, author J.B. Phillips encourages Christians to redefine their understanding of a creator without labels or earthly constraints and instead search for a meaningful concept of God. Phillips explains that the trouble facing many of us today is that we have not found a God big enough for our modern needs. In a world where our experience of life has grown in myriad directions and our mental horizons have been expanded to the point of bewilderment by world events and scientific discoveries, our ideas of God have remained largely static. This inspirational work tackles tough topics and inspires readers to reevaluate and connect more deeply with a God that is relevant to current experience and big enough to command respect and admiration.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Touchstone
• Release date: Mar 20, 2012
• ISBN: 9781439144725

J.B. Phillips

J.B. Phillips died in 1983. A canon of the Anglican church, his works include The Newborn Christian and his highly acclaimed translation The New Testament in Modern English.

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Reviews for Your God Is Too Small

[zangasta · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Man doesn't know God. Instead he holds in his mind an image of God. Unfortunately this image tends to be somewhat misleading, even destructive, and will especially be so if it isn't allowed to grow with experience of life.Phillips gives a presentation of various images he sees men suffering from, and I do appreciate the effort he takes, even if he is missing one or two I have encountered.