Hating god : the untold story of misotheism

Hating god : the untold story of misotheism / Bernard Schweizer.

While atheists have now become public figures, there is another and perhaps darker strain of religious rebellion that has remained out of sight - people who hate God. In this book, Bernard Schweizer looks at men and women who do not question God's existence, but deny that He is merciful, compet...

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Main Author: Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Misotheism.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
Misotheism
Gott
Gottesvorstellung
Hass
God.
Haat.
Hass.
Ablehnung.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. A brief history of misotheism
  • pt. 2. Six case studies in literary misotheism. Absolute misotheism I : paganism, radicalism, and Algernon Swinburne's war against God ; Agonistic misotheism I : faith, doubt, and Zora Neale Hurston's resistance to God ; Agonistic misotheism II : bad fathers, historical crises, and Rebecca West's accusations against God ; Agonistic misotheism III : divine apathy, the Holocaust, and Elie Wiesel's wrestling with God ; Absolute misotheism II : perverse worshippers, divine avatars, and Peter Shaffer's attacks against God ; Absolute misotheism III : anticlericalism, deicide, and Philip Pullman's liberal crusade against God
  • Conclusion.

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