From the back cover:

It will not be easy at first to sense that God is a trauma, that "the jungle fire-fight, the early morning rape, the speeding automobile of the drunk driver … may be God images if, like God, they create us in their image, after their likeness." But little by little, this "gnostic analysis" gets under the skin, and one begins to see, indeed, that "whatever traumatizes us becomes our parent" and our God, and that our religion has traumatized us by being "religious kitsch," covering our hurts. Greg Mogenson makes the point sensitively, therapeutically, and compellingly that "the notion of salvation is eternally corruptible," and that "we need salvation from the very notion of salvation itself." It may be as important for souls today to wrestle God Is a Trauma, as it was for Jacob to wrestle God's angel traumatically … and for the same reason!"

Mogenson's book is written in the best tradition of psychoanalysis. Because he does not forsake the pain (and thus the soul), trauma ceases to be a mere subject matter and turns into a lens through which a multitude of themes appear in an often shocking, at times truly up-setting new light. Mogenson avoids the trap of humanism, but is able to show how a psychology of trauma can open up the way for a human existence in which the acceptance of "normal unhappiness" (Freud) releases each person's creative, soul-making powers.

Every Christian, Jewish and Muslim believer should read Mogenson's book—and every psychologist; everyone interested in soul and religion. If he is perceptive, the believer will be disturbed and shaken, although he may not lose his faith because, to paraphrase Shakespeare, there is more between heaven and earth than is dreamed of even by the author of this highly recommended book.

Here is a book that does not fear to look the Devil in his face and to embrace what there it sees. The result is a genuine transvaluation of values in the tradition of Nietzsche.