Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient WorldKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10. nóv. 2015 - 304 síður How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. |
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... divine. All people have that capacity, even if some choose not to use it. That is why there has never been, and never will be, a society without gods. THERSANDER: Humans created gods. Primitive humans saw divinity in the sun, moon, and ...
... divine mandate. There are, to be sure, some traces in the Bible of awareness that not everyone commits equally to belief in Yahweh. The Psalms speak of wicked men who say that ¡there is no God¢ (10:4, 14:1). Job abuses Yahweh (quite ...
... divine salvation are open to suspicion. Miracles, by their very definition, test the limits of plausibility. Greeks could see that just as well as Evans-Pritchard}s Azande. There is a comparable story told of Diogenes the Cynic, Greek ...
... divine intervention and pollution, others (notably the famous orator Demosthenes) put forward an essentially secular ... divine aspects were fully integrated) and ¡dyophysites¢ (who thought he had distinct human and divine natures). When ...
... divine and the promise of eternal life, for example, you could join a mystery cult and become a devotee of Dionysus ... divine, whether through mystery cults, philosophical schools, or other, more personal and inventive forms of ...
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Battling the Gods | |
The Material Cosmos | |
Cause and Effect | |
Concerning the Gods I Cannot Know | |
Playing the Gods | |
Plato and the Atheists | |
Gods and Kings | |
Philosophical Atheism | |
Epicurus Theomakhos | |
With Gods on Our Side | |
Virtual Networks | |
Acknowledgments | |
Atheism on Trial | |