Beside Still Waters
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| Author | Gregg Easterbrook |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Book design by Bernard Klein |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Modern religion and analysis of the Bible |
| Genre(s) | Religion |
| Publisher | William Morrow and Company, Inc. |
| Released | 1998 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 381 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-688-16065-4 |
Beside Still Waters is a nonfiction book by Gregg Easterbrook. In it he defends religion against its critics. He expounds a theory of religion and Christianity based on his reading of the Old and New Testament, in which God is not an omnipotent omniscient being, but rather a limited but perhaps awesomely powerful being who learns and grows over time; in this way he seeks to explain the ravages and evil of the Old Testament god and bring back Jesus's original teachings of love for God and fellow humans and charity.
The title of the book comes from Psalm 23, which begins with "The Lord is my shepherd" and includes the line, "He leads me beside still waters."
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