God interrupted : heresy and the European imagination between the world wars

God interrupted : heresy and the European imagination between the world wars / Benjamin Lazier.

Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most...

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Main Author: Lazier, Benjamin, 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Jonas, Hans, > 1903-1993.
Scholem, Gershom, > 1897-1982.
Strauss, Leo.
Jonas, Hans, > 1903-1993
Scholem, Gershom, > 1897-1982
Strauss, Leo
Jonas, Hans > Philosoph.
Scholem, Gershom.
1900-1999
God (Judaism) > History of doctrines > 20th century.
Jewish philosophy > 20th century.
Heresy > History > 20th century.
Pantheism > History > 20th century.
Gnosticism > History > 20th century.
RELIGION > Judaism > Theology.
PHILOSOPHY > Religious.
Gnosticism
God (Judaism) > History of doctrines
Heresy
Intellectual life
Jewish philosophy
Pantheism
Gnosis
Pantheismus
Jüdische Philosophie
Häresie
Pantheismus-Streit
Jodendom.
Gnosticisme.
Pantheïsme.
Afwezigheid van God.
Europe > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Europe
Europa (geografie)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The Gnostic return
  • God interrupted: Romans in Weimar
  • Overcoming Gnosticism
  • After Auschwitz, earth
  • Pantheism revisited
  • The Pantheism controversy
  • From God to nature
  • Natural right and Judaism
  • Redemption through sin
  • Jewish Gnosticism
  • Raising Pantheism
  • From nihilism to nothingness
  • Scholem's golem.

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