A major problem with this item is the amount of irrelevant material. The first two chapters are rehashes of worldviews concerning the nature of God that most folks picking up this book should already be familiar with. One gets the impression that Geisler finished his book and found out that it was too short, so he added on these chapters. I rather wish that he had instead gone into more depth on the more relevant chapters.

And this indeed he could have done: While 'Neotheism' is not exactly the rage of the day [Geisler only names a few scholars who adhere to it, and only one, Clark Pinnock, is a 'major name'], it has a disturbing resemblance to the philosophy of God behind the 'Counterfeit Revival' which imagines the Almighty to be the equivalent to a personal genie. Both movements descend to naive anthropomorphism in their view of God. Here is where Geisler 'misses the boat,' for it would have been very easy to tie the movements together and write a more serious and relevant book. Neotheism needed to be exposed, but the average Christian is more likely to run into the Counterfeit folks than a Neotheist. Better that Geisler should have warned us about both.

Beyond that, Geisler makes some good points against Neotheism, albeit sometimes oversimplified - perhaps the necessary price of making the issue understandable. I would have liked to have seen more hard data backing up his section of fulfilled prophecy. For the sake of being prepeared to face Neotheism as it appears elsewhere [it bears a haunting resemblance to Harold Kushner's view of God], by all means pick this one up, but don't think of it as the last or comprehensive word on the subject.