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Savage Side: Reclaiming Violent Models of God

Savage Side: Reclaiming Violent Models of God

Carroll, Jill B.

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PhilosophyAtheism & AgnosticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0742512827
ISBN13: 9780742512825
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jan 22 2002
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this book, B. Jill Carroll uses the nature writing of Annie Dillard and the philosophical categories of Emmanual Levinas to critique the models of God that drive contemporary political theologies, especially feminist and liberation theologies. These political theologies ignore the amoral and often harsh aspects of our existence in the natural world, even though they often align God with the cosmos. Political theologies excise from their models of God all notions of violence, indifference to social justice or general amorality in favor of models that support and advance specific social, political and economic ideologies. Such domestication of God does not do justice to the hard facts of our existence in the natural world, nor does it fully plumb the depths of using nature to metaphorize God. Furthermore, Carroll argues that current political models of God do not survive the most important critiques of religion in the modern era, namely those leveled by Feuerbach, Freud and Nietzsche. Instead, the God of the oppressed stands tall among any number of gods that exist primarily as projections of our best selves, illusions rooted in wish fulfillment, and attempts to further our own personal goals by claiming the universe is on our side.

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