Godlust: Facing the Demonic, Embracing the Divine - Softcover

Walters, Kerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809139154 ISBN 13: 9780809139156

Verlag: Paulist Press International,U.S., 2000

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Book by Walters Kerry

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Godlust is the Original Sin, says the author, our desire to be like God corrupted into a lust to become God. We try to do this by "devouring" God's qualities, such as Truth, Good, and Beauty, but only end up corrupting these qualities as well. Truth becomes relative and subjective, Good becomes enforced social altruism, and Beauty becomes divorced from the natural world while the natural world itself becomes mere fodder for scientific conquest. Truly original, clearly and compellingly expressed,this book - - shows how Godlust affects every aspect of our life - provides strategies to escape Godlust and re-establish our relationship with God - draws from Jonathan Edwards, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dorothy Day, Frederick Buechner, and the New Testament, as well as such philosophers as Rahner, Weil, Heidigger, Nietzsche, and Rarty - makes difficult ideas highly accessible and fascinating - is a work of spirituality for a broad audience

Biografía del autor:

Kerry Walters is the Edwin T. and Cynthia Shearer Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. Among his books are Paulist's Spirituality of the Handmaid. He lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

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• Verlag: Paulist Press International,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0809139154
• ISBN 13: 9780809139156
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176