Creatively combines political theory, evolutionary theory, history, and theology in favor of an agonistic pluralism. The book offers a nuanced understanding of the biblical tradition's emergence and its political consequences with respect to violence to suggest how we can mediate between exclusive monotheism and critiques of intolerance.
Creatively combines political theory, evolutionary theory, history, and theology in favor of an agonistic pluralism. The book offers a nuanced understanding of the biblical tradition's emergence and its political consequences with respect to violence to suggest how we can mediate between exclusive monotheism and critiques of intolerance.
Christopher Haw is Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Scranton.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Pluralism's requisite intolerance 2. Girard's mimetic theory and monotheism's ambivalent effects 3. Monotheism and the monopoly on violence: Freud and Girard 4. Containing violence and two entirely different kinds of religion 5. Polytheism and the victim in Ancient Eqypt 6. A political theology of the mosaic distinction: the development of apophatic intolerance 7. Jesus Christ and intolerance: toward revelation without rivalry 8. Conclusion: how to be intolerant.
1. Pluralism's requisite intolerance 2. Girard's mimetic theory and monotheism's ambivalent effects 3. Monotheism and the monopoly on violence: Freud and Girard 4. Containing violence and two entirely different kinds of religion 5. Polytheism and the victim in Ancient Eqypt 6. A political theology of the mosaic distinction: the development of apophatic intolerance 7. Jesus Christ and intolerance: toward revelation without rivalry 8. Conclusion: how to be intolerant.
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