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The Prince of This World

Autor Adam Kotsko
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 oct 2016
The most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible propositions: God is all-good, God is all-powerful, and evil happens. The Prince of This World traces the story of one of the most influential attempts to square this circle: the offloading of responsibility for evil onto one of God's rebellious creatures. In this striking reexamination, the devil's story is bitterly ironic, full of tragic reversals. He emerges as a theological symbol who helps oppressed communities cope with the trauma of unjust persecution, torture, and death at the hands of political authorities and eventually becomes a vehicle to justify oppression at the hands of Christian rulers. And he evolves alongside the biblical God, who at first presents himself as the liberator of the oppressed but ends up a cruel ruler who delights in the infliction of suffering on his friends and enemies alike. In other words, this is the story of how God becomes the devil—a devil who remains with us in our ostensibly secular age.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781503600201
ISBN-10: 1503600203
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press

Recenzii

"A substantial contribution to recent studies of the figure of the devil in Christian theology. Adam Kotsko goes beyond the biography of an icon to a provocative investigation of the devil's many lives and effects in cultural and political ideologies. Not only that, his book is a great read."—Laurel C. Schneider, Vanderbilt University

"This diabolically gripping genealogy offers a stunning parable of western politics religious and secular. It tracks as has never been done before the dramatic shifts of the relation between God and the Devil–conflict, rivalry, game of mirrors, fusion. With the ironic wisdom of a postmodern Beatrice, Kotsko guides us through the sequence of hells that leads to our own."—Catherine Keller, Drew University

Notă biografică

Adam Kotsko is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College in Chicago. His books include Why We Love Sociopaths (2012) and Politics of Redemption (2010)."

Descriere

Calling upon us to rethink some of our most treasured contemporary values, this book shows where the Christian idea of the devil came from—and how it eventually took over Christian theology, turning God himself into the devil.