One God, Many Gods
Author | : Francisco Adam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | : 9780758616319 |
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Author | : Francisco Adam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | : 9780758616319 |
Author | : Robert McQueen Grant |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664250119 |
Compares early Christian beliefs about God with the religious beliefs of others in the Roman Empire and traces the development of Christian theology
Author | : Page duBois |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2014-06-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0674728831 |
As A Million and One Gods shows, polytheism is considered a scandalous presence in societies oriented to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs. Yet it persists, even in the West, perhaps because polytheism corresponds to unconscious needs and deeply held values of tolerance, diversity, and equality that are central to civilized societies.
Author | : Jan Assmann |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299225534 |
For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark—a distinction between one true God and many false gods—was once a new and radical idea. Of God and Gods explores the revolutionary newness of biblical theology against a background of the polytheism that was once so commonplace. Jan Assmann, one of the most distinguished scholars of ancient Egypt working today, traces the concept of a true religion back to its earliest beginnings in Egypt and describes how this new idea took shape in the context of the older polytheistic world that it rejected. He offers readers a deepened understanding of Egyptian polytheism and elaborates on his concept of the “Mosaic distinction,” which conceives an exclusive and emphatic Truth that sets religion apart from beliefs shunned as superstition, paganism, or heresy. Without a theory of polytheism, Assmann contends, any adequate understanding of monotheism is impossible. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association
Author | : Tom Couser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 9780570068341 |
This book of comparative religious studies points out significant differences in faiths and the uniqueness of the Christian faith. Each lesson can be used independently as a study of a single faith, or the entire book can be used for an extended introduction to major Christian and non-Christian faiths. Covers Buddhism, Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses, New Age practices, satanism, the occult, and more. For youth and adults. 12 sessions. Extensive background information including a comparison chart. Reproducible student pages.
Author | : Harry C. Kiely |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780976389286 |
The authors discuss how to love America and how to be a patriotic Christian. They sound an alarm within the church and invite readers to open themselves to God's judgment so that they may respond faithfully in a time of widespread injustice and human suffering.
Author | : M. Don Schorn |
Publisher | : Ozark Mountain Publishing |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781886940994 |
Evolution.
Author | : Page duBois |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2014-06-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0674369130 |
Many people worship not just one but many gods. Yet a relentless prejudice against polytheism denies legitimacy to some of the world’s oldest and richest religious traditions. In her examination of polytheistic cultures both ancient and contemporary—those of Greece and Rome, the Bible and the Quran, as well as modern India—Page duBois refutes the idea that the worship of multiple gods naturally evolves over time into the “higher” belief in a single deity. In A Million and One Gods, she shows that polytheism has endured intact for millennia even in the West, despite the many hidden ways that monotheistic thought continues to shape Western outlooks. In English usage, the word “polytheism” comes from the seventeenth-century writings of Samuel Purchas. It was pejorative from the beginning—a word to distinguish the belief system of backward peoples from the more theologically advanced religion of Protestant Christians. Today, when monotheistic fundamentalisms too often drive people to commit violent acts, polytheism remains a scandalous presence in societies still oriented according to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs. Even in the multicultural milieus of twenty-first-century America and Great Britain, polytheism finds itself marginalized. Yet it persists, perhaps because polytheism corresponds to unconscious needs and deeply held values of tolerance, diversity, and equality that are central to civilized societies.
Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
Publisher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Atheism |
ISBN | : 0307958329 |
The absence of centralized religious authority made for an extraordinary variety of perspectives on sacred matters, from the devotional to theatheos, or "godless." Whitmarsh explores this kaleidoscopic range of ideas about the gods, focusing on the colorful individuals who challenged their existence. Among these were some of the greatest ancient poets and philosophers and writers, as well as the less well known: Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; Socrates, executed for rejecting the gods of the Athenian state; Epicurus and his followers, who thought gods could not intervene in human affairs; the brilliantly mischievous satirist Lucian of Samosata. Before the revolutions of late antiquity, which saw the scriptural religions of Christianity and Islam enforced by imperial might, there were few constraints on belief.
Author | : Neil Ormerod |
Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 145146469X |
Natural theology is a philosophical site that is hotly debated and controversialit is claimed by Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelicals as a crucial vantage point for the intersection of theology, philosophy, science, and politics. It is strongly contested by some theologians, such as those influenced by Barth, as well as some philosophers and scientists. This volume steers through these troubled waters, arguing for reclamation of a natural theology that withstands the challenges from within and without the Christian tradition and accrues to a vital public and political witness.