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God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination Between the World Wars

God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination Between the World Wars

Paperback

PhilosophyReligion General Judaism

ISBN10: 0691155410
ISBN13: 9780691155418
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jun 24 2012
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. In God Interrupted, Benjamin Lazier tracks the ensuing debates about the divine across confessions and disciplines. He also traces the surprising afterlives of these debates in postwar arguments about the environment, neoconservative politics, and heretical forms of Jewish identity. In lively, elegant prose, the book reorients the intellectual history of the era.


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