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Is the Bible a lie? Spinoza reveals how God was invented to control us
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Who was the old Jewish God? (God: An Anatomy) |
This is a powerful, timely, and unsettling analysis that challenges everything traditionally believed about faith.
God: An Anatomy
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God made into an earthy Man |
Drawing on her academic expertise and scholarly examination of the Jewish-Christian Bible, University of Exeter Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Ph.D., Oxford) paints a vivid portrait of a very human-shaped deity, a product of a particular society, a particular time, made in the image of the people who created him, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world.
This is a god of stunning surprise and complexity. Whether one is a believer or not, this fleshy uncensored (monotheistic) "God" has shaped our Western concept of life and death, our assumptions about sex and gender, even our perception of what it is to be a person.
Arresting, elegant and passionately argued, it is cultural history on a grand scale. More
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- Wise Daily Reflections, April 25, 2025; Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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