The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life

This book is truly a treasure for anyone who desires to grow spiritually and understand God in a deeper, more meaningful way. From the very first chapter, the author challenges the reader to think seriously about who God is and how our view of Him shapes our entire spiritual life. What I loved most about this book is how it elevates your understanding of God’s holiness, majesty, love, and sovereignty. It doesn’t present shallow or emotional ideas, but instead calls the reader to reverence, humility, and awe. Each chapter feels like a meditation — something you can slowly reflect on, underline, and revisit again and again. The writing is clear, powerful, and deeply convicting without being harsh. It gently corrects wrong ideas we may have formed about God and replaces them with a biblical, exalted vision of His character. After reading this book, I found myself praying differently — with more reverence, more gratitude, and more trust. This is not just a book to read once and put away. It’s a book to study, reflect on, and even discuss with others. I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to grow in faith, whether you are a new believer or someone who has been walking with God for many years. A true spiritual classic. Five stars without hesitation.

This book takes you deeper in the knowledge of our Holy God and challenges you to reconsider your own answer to the question of "Who is He?" Definitely recommend everyone who intends to know God to start with this book.

This book will keep you up and praying!

A wonderful book! Easy to read and easy to understand. It is easy to see why this is a classic in Christian literature. There are some very deep doctrinal points made and explained in a way that almost anyone should be able to understand.

Wow! What a book about the character of God. A real mind opener! Tozer is a classic author, and this book is an example of this for sure. Practically every sentence is jam-packed with information.

One of the areas that Christians tend to not think enough about is the absolute glory and greatness of Our God. I specifically said Christians with no such adjectives as "today" or "modern" because I think this has been a problem throughout history. In other words, unlike A. W. Tozer, in his book The Knowledge of the Holy, I don't think that the ancients had it so perfect and we only recently flubbed this up. Despite this and a few other minor quibbles, I was greatly edified by the above-titled book, and do recommend it. In his book, Tozer states from the outset that, since not everyone is able, due to education, time, etc., to read and understand the deeper studies in theology and Scriptural exegesis, he is going to pare down the concepts into a short, and easy to understand, volume. The format he uses is to begin each chapter by describing an attribute of God. He then uses that chapter to do two things. First off, he deals with explaining said attribute, and second, Tozer ties the concepts and chapters together by making clear that each of these attributes are constantly present in the Godhead. God is perfectly every single one of His attributes for eternity. Another theme of Tozer's is that not only does God deserve our praise, it is to our own good to praise Him. He doesn't need us or our praise. At least, He doesn't need us or our praise in the sense of the word need we normally understand. He only "needs" us because He chose to do so for our own good, so we could have the joy of serving and praising Him. In reality, He doesn't need us, and His infinite love would be perfectly satisfied without us, if He chose. His love directed towards us (and any need that goes with us) is his choice and His gift to us. If you think of this, you can see the, as CS Lewis puts it in one of his works, "intolerable compliment" of His choosing to love and desire our best. Yet we repay the God of the Universe Who does this for us in what way? With disdain, a careless disregard, so forth. We do not give him the great glory He calls us to give Him, that He DESERVES, and that would be our greatest joy to give Him. We must remedy this, both to avoid sin and to experience the joy of God and growing in the knowledge of Him and His holiness. On a few issues Tozer is wrong, in my opinion. I think that he views the past too rosily, in terms of devotion to God. I think that this problem with seeing God in the wondrous, awed way we ought so to do is a long-standing one. That is why, just my opinion here, the Scriptures so frequently speak of the necessity of doing so. I also think that some of his criticisms of every day life are due to the concern over greater technology and the fear of "losing ourselves" to it, just as such concerns exist today. They were much greater back then, and other writers of the time dealt with these concerns. Tozer's personal pet peeves leaked into this topic, methinks. As well, Tozer seemed to view the idea of understanding God in language as somehow wrong. I can see his point that no words can adequately describe His Majesty, but to use the words is not wrong. God Himself told us to use certain language and terms to describe Him in His Word. He would not have done so had He considered such descriptions so beneath Him as to be a bad or potentially sinful thing. In a similar vein, Tozer had a strange habit of viewing arguments for God's existence as so beneath Him that they were almost sinful against God. Then he turned around himself and used logic to argue for God's attributes. How does that work? Lest these few criticisms make one think that I got nothing from the work, or thought it a bad effort, I reiterate my earlier praise for this brief book, and how much it has edified me. While I would disagree with Tozer on a few things, and think that this issue is a perennial problem with Christians instead of a recent one, I agree with his overall thesis. The Church (and thus individual Christians) are in a dark place of not trusting and loving God as we should. We must take God and the things of God more seriously, experience an increased awe of God, and begin to truly worship and praise Him. The only way for the Church to do this is to have the individual Christians that comprise the Church make a conscious choice to do this. Let us take up this necessary, worthy, right, and joyful challenge.

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Cualquier persona que quiere pensar seriamente acerca de Dios debería leer este libro. El autor ofrece un entendimiento profundo con explicaciones sencillas acerca de los atributos de Dios y la importancia de pensar correctamente acerca de Dios. No es una lectura sencilla y requeire paciencia y en ocasiones releer algunos párrafos, pero vale mucho la pena.

Why aren't we taught this in every church in the land. A W Tozer can really help us begin to learn how to see more clearly how we should worship and reverence the Majesty on high and His only begotten Son at His right hand through His word being led by the Holy Spirit. If you are yearning for a deeper walk with God this is a great help. I think we should all look back a learn from the great saints back through the ages. Men and women of proven character and see how they looked to and sought God with proper reverence and worship of who He is- the Great I Am.

Leitura fundamental para a compreensão da soberania de Deus

This is not an easy book to read, by virtue of its depth. I can only read a paragraph or two and then must put it aside to 'meditate' and pray on. But it is worth taking the time. You will end up with a greater 'knowledge of the holy' than you have ever known, leading to an even deeper relationship with our Heavenly Father. This is a classic that must never go out of print. We - God's people of every generation need to know Him as deeply as this book takes us.