Creation and the Persistence of Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creation and the Persistence of Evil write by Jon D. Levenson. This book was released on 1994-12-19. Creation and the Persistence of Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine omnipotence, Jon Levenson defines God's authorship of the world as a consequence of his victory in his struggle with evil. He traces a flexible conception of God to the earliest Hebrew sources, arguing, for example, that Genesis 1 does not describe the banishment of evil but the attempt to contain the menace of evil in the world, a struggle that continues today.
Creation and the Persistence of Evil
Creation and the Persistence of Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creation and the Persistence of Evil write by Jon Douglas Levenson. This book was released on 1985. Creation and the Persistence of Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel
Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel write by Jon Douglas Levenson. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique which places the meaning of a text in the middle, framed by a beginning and ending in parallel. To read a ring composition in the modern linear fashion is to misinterpret it, Douglas contends, and today's scholars must reevaluate important antique texts from around the world. Found in the Bible and in writings from as far a field as Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, ring composition is too widespread to have come from a single source. Does it perhaps derive from the way the brain works? What is its function in social contexts? The author examines ring composition, its principles and functions, in a cross-cultural way. She focuses on ring composition in Homer's Iliad, the Bible's book of Numbers, and, for a challenging modern example, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, developing a persuasive argument for reconstruing famous books and rereading neglected ones.
Inheriting Abraham
Inheriting Abraham - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inheriting Abraham write by Jon Douglas Levenson. This book was released on 2012. Inheriting Abraham available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Levenson provides a masterful reading of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thinking that yielded three different portraits of Abraham. He sets the record straight about the biblical patriarch."---Sidney H. Griffith, author of The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam --Book Jacket.
Unmasking Administrative Evil
Unmasking Administrative Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unmasking Administrative Evil write by Guy B. Adams. This book was released on 1998-05-05. Unmasking Administrative Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although social scientists generally do not discuss "evil" in an academic setting, there is no denying that it has existed in public administration throughout human history. Hundreds of millions of human beings have died as a direct or indirect consequence of state-sponsored violence. The authors argue that administrative evil, or destructiveness, is part of the identity of all modern public administration (as it is part of psychoanalytic study at the individual level). It goes beyond a superficial critique of public administration and lays the groundwork for a more effective and humane profession.
