God Interrupted : : Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars / / Benjamin Lazier.

Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Overcoming Gnosticism
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: The Gnostic Return
  • Chapter Two: Romans in Weimar
  • Chapter Three: Overcoming Gnosticism
  • Chapter Four: After Auschwitz, Earth
  • Part Two: The Pantheism Controversy
  • Introduction
  • Chapter Five: Pantheism Revisited
  • Chapter Six: The Pantheism Controversy
  • Chapter Seven: From God to Nature
  • Chapter Eight: Natural Right and Judaism
  • Part Three: Redemption through Sin
  • Introduction
  • Chapter Nine: Redemption through Sin
  • Chapter Ten: Jewish Gnosticism
  • Chapter Eleven: Raising Pantheism
  • Chapter Twelve: From Nihilism to Nothingness
  • Chapter Thirteen: Scholem's Golem
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index