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Divine Violence
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Author : James Martel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03
Divine Violence written by James Martel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03 with Law categories.
Divine Violence maintains that the apparent unavoidability of sovereignty, to which many thinkers have succumbed, can be overcome with the assistance of Walter Benjamin.
Divine Violence And The Character Of God
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Author : Claude F. Mariottini
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2022-02-01
Divine Violence And The Character Of God written by Claude F. Mariottini and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with Religion categories.
There is much violence in the Old Testament, both human and divine. Christians and non-Christians react differently to what they read about the God of the Old Testament. Some people are so affected by the violence found in the Old Testament that they give up on God, stop going to church and reading the Bible, and eventually lose their faith. Others are offended by divine violence and seek to find an alternative explanation for the violent acts of God in the Old Testament. A popular alternative in the twenty-first century is to return to the second century and adopt some form of Marcionism and make the God of the Old Testament to be a different God from the God revealed by Christ in the New Testament. The purpose of this book is not a defense of God and his use of violence. The author seeks to understand why God acted the way he did and to understand the reason for divine violence in the Old Testament. Yahweh did use violence in his work of reconciliation. However, the use of violence was necessary when everything else failed. Israel provoked God to anger. When God brought judgment upon his people, he did so with tears in his eyes.
Divine Violence And The Christus Victor Atonement Model
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Author : Martyn J. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-09-23
Divine Violence And The Christus Victor Atonement Model written by Martyn J. Smith and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-23 with Religion categories.
In this book Martyn Smith addresses the issue of God's violence and refuses to shy away from difficult and controversial conclusions. Through his wide-ranging and measured study he reflects upon God and violence in both biblical and theological contexts, assessing the implications of divine violence for understanding and engaging with God's nature and character. Jesus too, through his dramatic actions in the temple, is presented as one capable of exhibiting a surprising degree of violent behavior in the furtherance of God's purposes. Through a reappropriation of the ancient Christus Victor model of atonement, with its dramatic representation of God's war with the Satan, Smith proposes that Christian understanding of both God and salvation has to return to its long-neglected past in order to move forward, both biblically and dynamically, into the future.
Divine Violence In The Book Of Samuel
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Author : Rachelle Gilmour
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-19
Divine Violence In The Book Of Samuel written by Rachelle Gilmour and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-19 with Religion categories.
Much of the drama, theological paradox, and interpretive interest in the Book of Samuel derives from instances of God's violence in the story. The beginnings of Israel's monarchy are interwoven with God's violent rejection of the houses of Eli and of Saul, deaths connected to the Ark of the Covenant, and the outworking of divine retribution after David's violent appropriation of Bathsheba as his wife. Whilst divine violence may act as a deterrent for violent transgression, it can also be used as a model or justification for human violence, whether in the early monarchic rule of Ancient Israel, or in crises of our contemporary age. In Divine Violence in the Book of Samuel, Rachelle Gilmour explores these narratives of divine violence from ethical, literary, and political perspectives, in dialogue with the thought of Immanuel Kant, Martha Nussbaum and Walter Benjamin. She addresses such questions as: Is the God of Samuel a capricious God with a troubling dark side? Is punishment for sin the only justifiable violence in these narratives? Why does God continue to punish those already declared forgiven? What is the role of God's emotions in acts of divine violence? In what political contexts might narratives of divine violence against God's own kings, and God's own people have arisen? The result is a fresh commentary on the dynamics of transgression, punishment, and their upheavals in the book of Samuel. Gilmour offers a sensitive portrayal of God's literary characterization, with a focus on divine emotion and its effects. By identifying possible political contexts in which the narratives arose, God's violence is further illumined through its relation to human violence, northern and southern monarchic ideology, and Judah's experience of the Babylonian exile.
In The Beginning Was The State
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Author : Adi M. Ophir
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2022-12-06
In The Beginning Was The State written by Adi M. Ophir and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-06 with Political Science categories.
This book explores God’s use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical imagination. Ophir deciphers the logic of divine rule that these documents betray, with a special attention to the place of violence within it. The book draws from contemporary biblical scholarship, while also engaging critically with contemporary political theory and political theology, including the work of Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, Jan Assmann, Regina Schwartz, and Michael Walzer. Ophir focuses on three distinct theocratic formations: the rule of disaster, where catastrophes are used as means of governance; the biopolitical rule of the holy, where divine violence is spatially demarcated and personally targeted; and the rule of law where divine violence is vividly remembered and its return is projected, anticipated, and yet postponed, creating a prolonged lull for the text’s present. Different as these formations are, Ophir shows how they share an urform that anticipates the main outlines of the modern European state, which has monopolized the entire globe. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in revisiting the deification of the state, unpacking its mostly repressed theological dimension.
Weird John Brown
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Author : Ted A. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-26
Weird John Brown written by Ted A. Smith and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-26 with Religion categories.
Combining theology, politics and historical analysis, “theorizes what might be at stake—ethically—for America’s current political life” (Andrew Taylor, Journal of American History). Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argument to life—and digs deep into the American political imagination—through a string of surprising reflections on John Brown, the nineteenth-century abolitionist who took up arms against the state in the name of a higher law. Smith argues that the key to limiting violence is not its separation from religion, but its connection to richer and more critical modes of religious reflection. Weird John Brown develops a negative political theology that challenges both the ways we remember American history and the ways we think about the nature, meaning, and exercise of violence. “Powerfully combines theology and political theory. . . . Recommended.” —R. J. Meagher, Choice “Smith illustrates how an ethical and philosophical reading of history can help us to better understand the world we live in.” —Franklin Rausch, New Books in Christian Studies “A brilliantly original and compelling book.” —John Stauffer, Harvard University “A very sophisticated philosophical and theological reflection on John Brown and the question of divine violence.” —Willie James Jennings, Duke University
Divine Violence
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Author : Frank Graziano
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1992-05-19
Divine Violence written by Frank Graziano and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-05-19 with History categories.
Providing an account of political repression in Argentina, this book takes as its theme the intersection of religion, violence and psychosexuality as they relate to the desire for power and to the myths and rituals manifesting that desire.
Divine Violence
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Author : Frank Graziano
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1992-06-04
Divine Violence written by Frank Graziano and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-06-04 with History categories.
Providing an account of political repression in Argentina, this book takes as its theme the intersection of religion, violence and psychosexuality as they relate to the desire for power and to the myths and rituals manifesting that desire.
Modern Jewish Philosophy And The Politics Of Divine Violence
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Author : Daniel H. Weiss
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Modern Jewish Philosophy And The Politics Of Divine Violence written by Daniel H. Weiss and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Religion categories.
Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin – in light of classical rabbinic accounts of God's sovereignty, divine and human violence, and the embodied human being as the image of God. He demonstrates how classical rabbinic literature is relevant to contemporary political and philosophical debates. Weiss brings to light striking political aspects of the writings of the modern Jewish philosophers, who have often been understood as non-political. In addition, he shows how the four modern thinkers are more radical and more shaped by Jewish tradition than has previously been thought. Taken as a whole, Weiss' book argues for a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between Judaism and politics, the history of Jewish thought, and the ethical and political dynamics of the broader Western philosophical tradition.
Divine Violence
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Author : L K Reid
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2022-10-23
Divine Violence written by L K Reid and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-23 with categories.
"Were we the sum of our sins?" I've been dancing with the shadows ever since I was a little girl, and a part of me always knew they would lead me here. To this funeral of dreams, to this wickedness of souls. There was no escape. There was no exit. I found my hell in dark, hollow eyes, but I wasn't ready for their violent touch. I found the devil, or maybe... Maybe he found me? So was I a sinner now? DIVINE VIOLENCE is a Reverse Harem prequel novella for The Dark Side of Paradise Duet, dealing with dark themes that might not be suitable for all readers. It is recommended only for readers above the age of 18.