Destroying Idols

Revisioning the Meaning of ‘God’

Norman K. Swazo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

179 Seiten

2019 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
9781527522930 (ISBN)

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Judaism and Christianity have different meanings for the concept of 'God.' These religions rely on different transmitted texts. Different words – in the biblical Hebrew, biblical Greek, biblical Latin, biblical English – contribute to confusion in meaning. For example, what does 'elohim' mean? Is there a difference between 'Yah' and 'Yahweh'? This book examines this confusion in meaning in the biblical texts. This confusion is at the heart of the divorce of Judaism and Christianity. Despite this, we can have a new way of understanding the concept "God", by which one may re-examine and support a minority point of view in rabbinic tradition, known as the "two powers in heaven" doctrine. Given this revision, there is ample reason for enlightened renewal of a "messianic" interpretation of both Jewish and Christian faiths. This book, therefore, speaks to theologians, philosophers of religion with interests in Jewish and Christian religious traditions, students of philosophy, and informed believers.

Norman K. Swazo is currently Professor of Philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy at North South University, Bangladesh. He has previously taught at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His research interests are ethics in international affairs, biomedical ethics, applied ethics, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Crisis Theory and World Order: Heideggerian Reflections (2002) and the editor of Contemporary Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics: An Anthology (2018).

Erscheinungsdatum	18.03.2019
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9781527522930 / 9781527522930
Zustand	Neuware