Written and edited by seven Biblical scholars with an excellent foreword by Stanley Hauerwas, each chapter is steeped in Biblical scholarship but written for a wide audience.

Even though the idea of proximate has remained part of my thinking and living for the last twenty years, I confess that I have often been tempted to give up. If I haven’t yet lost my dynamic of hope, I think I am in the process of losing it, given the fractured and violent world we currently inhabit. So it seems this book came to me at just the right time, at a time when I needed to, as Garber…

Readers will come away with a better understanding of how cells work and why sometimes the cells in our bodies fail...Most importantly, I think readers will come away with a new level of awe at the wonder of God’s good creation and a deeper reason to worship the author of these wonder-filled, smallest units of life we call cells.