The Armor of God: Understanding the Metaphor Review of Kim B. Clark. Armor: Divine Protection in ... more The Armor of God: Understanding the Metaphor Review of Kim B. Clark. Armor: Divine Protection in a Darkening World. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2007. 282 pp., with index. $21.95. To see the armor of God whole, and to put all of it on, we must comprehend that Christ is at the center. (p. 266) To the saints living in Ephesus, the apostle Paul wrote an important letter about living the gospel in a difficult world. In the paragraph we now know as Ephesians 6:10–17, he crafted a profound metaphor, comparing the spiritual strengths of the faithful to the various elements of armor worn by a soldier for protection on the battlefield. Armor: Divine Protection in a Darkening World is a thorough discussion of Paul’s metaphor that moves these inspired symbols out of the realm of the simplistic caricatures that have sometimes been used to describe them. Kim Clark explores the various elements of the metaphor by discussing concrete approaches to living the gospel and receiving its blessings. Cl...
The Armor of God: Understanding the Metaphor Review of Kim B. Clark. Armor: Divine Protection in ... more The Armor of God: Understanding the Metaphor Review of Kim B. Clark. Armor: Divine Protection in a Darkening World. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2007. 282 pp., with index. $21.95. To see the armor of God whole, and to put all of it on, we must comprehend that Christ is at the center. (p. 266) To the saints living in Ephesus, the apostle Paul wrote an important letter about living the gospel in a difficult world. In the paragraph we now know as Ephesians 6:10–17, he crafted a profound metaphor, comparing the spiritual strengths of the faithful to the various elements of armor worn by a soldier for protection on the battlefield. Armor: Divine Protection in a Darkening World is a thorough discussion of Paul’s metaphor that moves these inspired symbols out of the realm of the simplistic caricatures that have sometimes been used to describe them. Kim Clark explores the various elements of the metaphor by discussing concrete approaches to living the gospel and receiving its blessings. Cl...
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