Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine OmnipotenceHarper Collins, 2013. okt. 1. - 220 oldal This paperback edition of Creation and the Persistence of Evil brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine omnipotence, Jon Levenson defines God's authorship of the world as a consequence of his victory in his struggle with evil. Classic doctrines of God's creation of the universe from the void do not do justice to the complexity of that hard-fought battle, which is uncertain in its outcome. Levenson traces this more flexible conception of God to the earliest Hebrew sources. He argues that Genesis 1 does not describe the banishment of evil but the attempt to contain the menace of evil in the world, a struggle that continues today. |
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... creator of the world is directed against the forces that oppose him and his acts of creation—the forces of disorder, injustice, affliction, and chaos, which are, in the Israelite worldview, one. The radical implication in this must be ...
... it makes a distinction between the principle of being and the principle of value . . . if, speaking in religious language, the Creator and the God of grace are not identified.9 Here Niebuhr takes certain terms that are completely alien to.
... creator a worthy opponent. Creation becomes self-referential, a tautology, a truism: no serious alternative can be entertained, since chaos or cosmic evil has been identified with non-being and unreality. Thus, the language of combat ...
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Tartalomjegyzék
THE MASTERY OF GOD AND THE VULNERABILITY OF ORDER | |
The Futurity and Presence of the Cosmogonic Victory | |
The Vitality of Evil and the Fragility of Creation | |
Creation in Seven Days | |
Rest and ReCreation | |
Chaos Neutralized in Cult | |
The Dialectic of Covenantal Theonomy | |
Notes | |
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence Jon D. Levenson Korlátozott előnézet - 1994 |
Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence Jon D. Levenson Korlátozott előnézet - 1994 |
Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence Jon Douglas Levenson Nincs elérhető előnézet - 1988 |