God Interrupted Heresy and the European Imagination Between the World Wars

Name: God Interrupted Heresy and the European Imagination Between the World Wars
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ISBN: 9780691155418

ISBN-10: 0691155410

ISBN-13: 9780691155418

Edition: 2009

Authors: Benjamin Lazier

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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 potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. InGod Interrupted, Benjamin Lazier tracks the ensuing debates about the divine across confessions and disciplines. He also traces the surprising afterlives of these debates in postwar arguments about the environment, neoconservative politics, and heretical forms of Jewish identity. In lively, elegant prose, the book reorients the intellectual history…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.13" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Benjamin Lazier is assistant professor of history and humanities at Reed College. He is a recipient of the 2008 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Overcoming Gnosticism



The Gnostic Return



Romans in Weimar



Overcoming Gnosticism



After Auschwitz, Earth



The Pantheism Controversy



Pantheism Revisited



The Pantheism Controversy



From God to Nature



Natural Right and Judaism



Redemption through Sin



Redemption through Sin



Jewish Gnosticism



Raising Pantheism



From Nihilism to Nothingness



Scholem's Golem


Epilogue


Notes


Index