Dying Unto Life

by Arthur C. McGill, David William Cain (Editor), C. FitzSimons Allison (Foreword)

"McGill has the power to make ideas, concepts, differing perspectives vivid--to 'in-flesh' them. . . .Then comes the "switch" or reversal or inversion empowered by the very confrontation McGill has arranged. . . . McGill leaves only the demonic as the object of our worship. Just when we supposed that he was about to come to the defense of this "world-governing, background God," he dismisses such a God, leaving us with the demonic, leaving us room to affirm our own doubts and perplexities, leaving us with a harsher formulation than we might have ventured, leaving us attentive to what he is going to do next and to where he is going to lead us. Because by now we are following him.

170 pages, Paperback

First published January 25, 2013

About the author

The author and editor of 25 books and/or articles in 48 publications in two languages, Arthur Chute McGill was the Bussey Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School, taught at Amherst College, Wesleyan University, and Princeton University, held a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Louvain, Belgium (1958), and was Cadbury Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, England (1969).

Respected as a theologian and professor during his lifetime, interest in his publications waned after his death. Over the last few years, however, his work has enjoyed a resurgence, especially his books on suffering and death.