Power of God with an AD/HD Child Book

Amos Funkenstein's book is clearly a masterful work of scholarship. He is often credited as being one of the first modern historians to demonstrate the utility of tracing the evolution of a contemporary idea back through its roots as a means of better understanding. His identification of divine attributes such as omnipotence and omnipresence is insightful and relevant to certain metaphysical developments in modern scientific thought.

That being said a few caveats and comments:
-This is a book that assumes you are very familiar with the history of Christian theology in the Middle Ages, and that you have a solid grounding in the philosophy of the Enlightenment
- a familiarity with the basics of ancient philosophy is also assumed.
-The writing style is extremely dense. Paragraphs are packed with meaningful insights and arguments.
-This is an academic book, meaning that it suffers from needless academic "accretions" such as:
Never settling for 2 or 3 examples when 20 or 30 can be cited.
Following an idea through exhaustively-- especially when it is possible to bury the reader in endless and often irrelevant details.
Always say more when its possible to say less, ... etc.

As I said this is an important book in the modern evolution of historiographic analysis (and I am sure for Professor Funkenstein's standing in his department) but the ideas and arguments are buried under layers of academic pyrotechnics that simply become boring (to me) after a while.