{"id":126,"date":"2011-04-27T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/thom-starks-latest-book-review\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:29:00","slug":"thom-starks-latest-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/thom-starks-latest-book-review.html","title":{"rendered":"Thom Stark&#8217;s Latest Book (Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Calling what <a href=\"http:\/\/religionatthemargins.com\/2011\/04\/is-god-a-moral-compromiser-a-critical-review-of-paul-copans-is-god-a-moral-monster\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thomstark+%28thomstark%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thom Stark<\/a> has written a \u201cbook review\u201d rather than a \u201cbook\u201d would probably give an inaccurate impression. He has engaged Paul Copan\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/God-Moral-Monster-Making-Testament\/dp\/0801072751?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God<\/i><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0801072751\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\">\u00a0by writing <a href=\"http:\/\/thomstark.net\/copan\/stark_copan-review.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a book review that is a full book-length treatment<\/a> of the topic. Stark\u2019s response is titled \u201cIs God A Moral Compromiser?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you want samples, <a href=\"http:\/\/otagosh.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/stark-crunches-copan.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Otagosh<\/a> shares a <a href=\"http:\/\/otagosh.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/stark-on-apologetics.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">couple<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/otagosh.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/another-stark-quote.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">quotes<\/a> from Stark\u2019s review, and it is also highlighted at <a href=\"http:\/\/undeception.com\/paul-copan-and-the-epic-fail-known-as-apologetics\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Undeception+%28Undeception%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Undeception<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8802695946249691360?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling what Thom Stark has written a \u201cbook review\u201d rather than a \u201cbook\u201d would probably give an inaccurate impression. He has engaged Paul Copan\u2019s\u00a0Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God\u00a0by writing a book review that is a full book-length treatment of the topic. Stark\u2019s response is titled \u201cIs God A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thom Stark&#039;s Latest Book (Review)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Calling what Thom Stark has written a &quot;book review&quot; rather than a &quot;book&quot; would probably give an inaccurate impression. 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