"In their recent book The silent God, Marjo Korpel and Johannes de Moor presented a provocative view on the concept of divine silence in ancient Israel. In their view, divine silence can be explained as an answer to a variety of circumstance. Additionally, they opt for the view …
Should divine silence be seen as a subtle way of Gods interference with human affairs? Or is to be seen as a sign of his absence? Korpel and de Moor produced a provocative monograph on this topic. This volume contains a set of reactions to their position.
"In The Character of God, author Thomas E. Jenkins maintains that Protestant theology became boring by the late nineteenth century because the depictions of God as a character in theology became boring. He shows how in the early nineteenth century, American Protestant theologian…
Umwege sind die direktesten Wege zum Zentrum. Das neue Werk von Peter Sloterdijk ist ein Beleg für diese These: Außerhalb der Aktualität angesiedelt, handelt Theopoesie, auf den ersten Blick betrachtet, von den in der Bibliothek der Menschheit gespeicherten Versuchen, Gott oder …
O God, o heaven, o nature -- Mediatory theology and its discontents -- God with us -- The law : God's and man's -- Falsadeh in the Madraseh -- Sufism returns, and with a vengeance -- Varieties of skeptical expression -- Appendix A : names and dates In God and Man in Tehran, Hos…
In God and Man in Tehran, Hossein Kamaly explores the historical processes that have made and unmade contending visions of God in Iran's capital throughout the past two hundred years. Kamaly examines how ideas of God have been mobilized, contested, and transformed, emphasizing h…
Divine powers in Late Antiquity
Divine powers in Late Antiquity
"This volume explores how some of the most prominent philosophers and theologians of late antiquity conceptualize the idea that the divine is powerful. The period under consideration spans roughly four centuries (from the first to the fifth CE), which are of particular interest …
A collection of original essays on the concept of divine power(s) in Late Antiquity. It investigates how four major figures of Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus) and early Christian authors (from the New Testament, the Alexandrian school, and the Cappadocian …
