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What is God really like?

Turkish Title: Kutsal Olanı Tanımak

Original Title: The Knowledge of the Holy

Author: AW Tozer 

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“What comes into our mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” 

The first line of The Knowledge of the Holy leaves us in no doubt about the weight the author AW Tozer puts on knowing God. Truly knowing Him. This Christian classic, first published in 1961, is a deep study on the attributes of God and their meaning. Tozer defines an attribute as “something true about God”.

No dry doctrinal thesis, The Knowledge of the Holy takes each aspect of God’s character and shows how our relationship with God is enriched and more meaningful as we understand them better. Tozer aims to challenge our daily living and transform our walk with God.

Tozer says, “That our idea of God correspond as nearly as possible to the true being of God is of immense importance to us .. A right conception of God is basic not only to systematic theology but to practical Christian living as well. It is a foundation ... where it is inadequate or out of plumb the whole structure must sooner or later collapse. I believe there is scarely an error in doctrine or a failure in applying Christian ethics that cannot be traced finally to imperfect and ignoble thoughts about God.”

 

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 In this book we learn about:

≈Why we must think rightly about God        

≈The self-existence of God                         ≈The self-sufficiency of God                        

 ≈The eternity of God                                     ≈God’s infinitude

≈The Immutability of God                            ≈The Divine Omniscience

≈The Wisdom of God                                  ≈The Omnipotence of God

≈The Divine Transendence                       ≈God’s Omnipresence

≈The Faithfulness of God                          ≈The Goodness of God

≈The Justice of God                                    ≈The Mercy of God

≈The Grace of God                                      ≈The Love of God

≈The Holiness of God                                 ≈The Sovreignty of God                             

 

For example, Tozer explains the awesome concept of God’s infinitude in a simple, personal way that inspires praise as we grasp its depths and application to us: “An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.”  

In order to capture a sense of God’s majesty and to truly live in the Spirit we need to know God.  The new insight we get into God’s nature from the pages of this truly wonderful book will challenge us to rejuvenate our prayer life, meditate more reverently, and experience His presence in our daily lives.

The message of Kutsal Olanı Tanımak (The Knowledge of the Holy) can be summarised as : Learn  to know God, and thereby to worship Him and love Him.

About the Author:

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Aidan Wilson Tozer (1897-1963) was an American pastor, theologian and author.  For thirty years he was pastor of a church in Chicago.  In observing contemporary Christian living, he felt that the church was on a dangerous course towards compromising with "worldly" concerns. 

Leonard Ravenhill, a key figure in the Christian Renewal Movement, said of him, "I fear that we shall never see another Tozer.  Men like him are not college bred but Spirit taught."

Other books by Tozer in Turkish: Tanrı'yı Aramak (The Pursuit of God)

Reader recommendations:

“To live knowing that I am loved makes life and its problems more bearable.  Especially if this love is from God ... God’s great gift to us is that he speaks to us and treats us in a loving manner.  This book made me thank God once more that He speaks my language.” – Uğur Saçkesen, a leader of Anadolu Turkish Protestant Church.  

“Tozer wrote a foreword in which he makes the statement that he wrote the book on his knees in prayer -- He needn't have told us this; the aware reader will sense the fact as soon as he or she reads the first four pages!”

“Although this is a fairly small (and short) book, it is not one that can be read quickly. Each chapter, though less than 10 pages long apiece, must be savored, read slowly and meditated upon.”

 
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