Christian theology has affirmed throughout its history that God is a ""living"" God. But what does it mean that God lives? Why does it matter? Does God live like us? If God does not live like us what is the difference between our living and God's living? These are the questions Adam Pryor addresses in The God Who Lives. The book considers ""life"" as a conceptual problem, examining how new studies about the emergence of life have critical implications for interpreting the religious symbol ""God is living."" In particular, Pryor suggests how absence and desire, what is termed ""abstential...