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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... human clerics. The job of priests was to sacrifice, not to pronounce on ethical or spiritual issues. The idea of a Greek priest or priestess using his or her influence to sway public debates on (for example) the definition of marriage ...
... human flesh? How can a deity be of this world? In the fifth century AD, the Christian Church found itself locked in a battle between ¡monophysites¢ (who believed that Christ}s human and divine aspects were fully integrated) and ...
... humans too, usually in human form: they could fight, share food, and even mate with them. It is tempting for those raised on a modern, monotheist conception of religion to see this polytheism as deficient. Where is the spiritual ...
... human civilization. Until that momentxborrowing from Assmann, we might speak of ¡the Christian distinction¢xatheism was an integral part of the cultural life of Greece. Good Books S acred scripture is one of the major.
... human history providentially. There is very little evidence for this in the rest of the Iliad. In general, the Iliadic gods, mathematically split as they are in their support for the Greeks and the Trojans, seem strikingly uninterested ...
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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 | |