# “There is none greater than this God” by Matthew Barrett

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2019/03/14/there-is-none-greater-than-this-god-by-matthew-barrett/
- Published: 2019-03-14T12:00:51-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“This book is meant to _fill the house_ with good theology proper, the type that
will keep the demons away for good (Matt. 12:45).

That means dispensing with the modern theologian’s agenda to create a God in our
own image, a God whose immanence has swallowed His transcendence, a God that can
be controlled by the creature because He is not that different from the creature.

But it also means filling the house with a biblical understanding of God as the 
One who is, as Isaiah said, ‘high and lifted up’ (Isa. 6:1), whose attributes remain
undomesticated. He is the God Jeremiah confessed, saying, ‘There is none like You,
O Lord; You are great, and Your name is great in might,’ (Jer. 10:6).

There is none greater than this God, not because He is merely a greater version 
of ourselves but because He is nothing like ourselves.”

–Matthew Barrett, [_None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God_](https://amzn.to/2Ckcf4p)(
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2019), xvi.

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