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The Savage Side. Reclaiming Violent Models of God.
B. Jill Carroll
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Hardback. This text 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. These theologies ignore the amoral aspects of existence in the natural world, though they align God with the cosmos. Num Pages: 136 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HRAB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 113.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742512818
SKU
V9780742512818
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About B. Jill Carroll
B. Jill Carroll is professor of religious studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Reviews for The Savage Side. Reclaiming Violent Models of God.
This book articulates an important corrective to a dominant 'model of God'. Most importantly, it charts a fresh trajectory for natural theology—one that, interestingly enough, has far more in common with the God we meet in biblical texts than the one whitewashed by our moral and political pieties.
Theology Today
Her [Carrol's] critique is broadly persuasive.
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Theology Today
Her [Carrol's] critique is broadly persuasive.
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