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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... (modern Santorini). In the Minoans} stead emerged a new power, based now on the mainland: the Mycenaeans. They too ran a maritime economy, trading far afield, but they also adapted their predecessors} shipping technology for new ...
... (modern Turkey) in the fourteenth century BC make reference to kings of ¡Ahhiyawa,¢ probably a form of ¡Achaea,¢ a name for the Greek mainland that appears in Homer. Indeed, if Homer}s legend of the expedition to Troy has any historical ...
... modern viewer an invaluable record of their values and priorities.4 The culture of the polis was financed by international trade and colonization. Greece was ideally placed to exploit the opportunities opened up by long-distance sea ...
... modern monotheisms (Islam, Judaism, Christianity). There was no desire or attempt to impose theological orthodoxy. The idea of a common place of pilgrimage like Jerusalem, Mecca, or Santiago de Compostela is alien to Greek polytheism ...
... modern monotheismsxJudaism, Christianity, and Islamxis that he is transcendent and remote. Christianity has grappled since its very inception with the question of Christ}s transcendence: How can a god be born into human flesh? How can a ...
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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 | |