| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
400 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-381) and index. |
| Contents |
INTRODUCTION -- The death of God -- Rejecting God -- The images of God -- speaking of God -- Experiencing the world -- Experiencing God -- Phenomenology -- God and values -- The death of life of God -- IN THE BEGINNING -- Introduction and timeline -- Goddess -- The natural world -- Symbol and sign -- Music -- Ritual -- Myth -- Sacrifice -- Architecture -- Art -- INDIA -- Introduction and timeline -- Tamil Nadu -- Indus valley -- Sacrifice -- Three and one -- Criticisms of God -- The fierce deities -- Amitabha -- Early philosophies -- Rama and Ramayana -- Hanuman -- The puranas -- The upanishads -- Philosophers -- Vishnu -- Krishna -- Krishna and Radha -- Vishnu and Krisha -- Krishna and devotion -- Sex and tantra -- Shiva -- Shiva's sons -- Devotion to Shiva -- Goddess and Shakti -- Goddess and God -- Kabir -- Sikhs -- Sound -- Mandala and Yantra -- Temples of India -- Pilgrimage -- Knowledge and love -- From Tagore to Gandhi -- THE RELIGIONS OF ASIA -- Introduction and timeline -- Oracle bones -- Tian -- Confucius -- Nature and God -- Daode jing -- Three from one -- The investiture of the Gods -- Buddhas and Bodhisattvas -- Korea -- Korea and Japan -- Japan -- Temples and ritual -- Mountains -- THE RELIGIONS OF ABRAHAM -- Introduction and timeline for Judaism -- The bible and God -- God and lord -- Defeat of the gods -- The anger of God -- The love of God -- The holiness of God -- Temple, holiness, and priests -- Sacrifice and Psalms -- The exile -- Zoroaster -- After the exile -- Scripture -- Change and stability -- Wisdom -- Creation -- Suffering -- The Rabbis -- The synagogue -- Liturgy -- Kabbalah -- Maimonides -- The Hasidim -- The Holocaust -- Introduction and timeline for Christianity -- The background -- Paul -- Jesus -- The New Testament -- The person of Christ -- Jesus and God -- Three in one -- The East-West debate -- Darkness and light -- The negative way -- Celtic Christianity -- Augustine -- Benedict and Dominic -- Francis -- Thomas Aquinas -- Dante -- The way of unknowing -- Architecture -- Liturgy and drama -- Music -- Art -- Icons -- From Greece to Russia -- Luther and Calvin -- Teresa and John -- Ignatius -- John Wesly -- America -- New clothes for old beliefs -- God and myth -- Beyond reason -- Liberation theology -- Thealogy -- Secularization -- Introduction and timeline for Islam -- Muhammad -- The vision in the cave -- The Quran -- Calligraphy -- Allah in the Quran -- God's power -- Sufis -- Rabia -- alHallaj -- ibn Arabi -- The conference of birds -- Rumi -- Sufi orders -- Sharia -- The mosque -- alFarabi -- ibn Sina -- alGhazali -- Jihad and martyrdom -- IN THE END. |
| Summary |
The history of God cannot possibly be told. How can you write the history of One who is outside time and space, and who has no beginning and no end? Nevertheless, the desire to understand and experience the divine is a fundamental human need. For billions of people, through many millennia, the quest to answer the basic questions of existence -- Why are we born? What will happen to us when we die? and how should we live out lives? -- has become a search for God. A brief history of God explores the myriad ways in which humans have sought connection to the divine from the dawn of history to the present -- not just through religion and philosophy, but in art and literature, in music and dance, and in science. |
| Subject |
Religions -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Religion -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| ISBN |
0789480506 |
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0751347884 |
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