God as Nothing: Why 'Does God exist?' may be the wrong question - Brossura

Markus, Gilbert

 
9781917362047: God as Nothing: Why 'Does God exist?' may be the wrong question
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1917362048 ISBN 13: 9781917362047
Casa editrice: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 2025

Sinossi

This eloquent new book of philosophical theology challenges and aims to remedy the underlying assumption of both believers and atheists that their arguments depend on proof that God either exists or doesn’t exist. It is a controversy conducted in misleading terms – as if atheists believed in all the things that exist in the universe, and theists also believed in all those beings but also believed in one additional being which they call ‘God’. A much more useful enquiry about ‘God’, suggests Gilbert Márkus, is ‘Why does anything exist, rather than nothing?’ If God created everything that exists, according to a very ancient tradition, God cannot be one of the things that exist. God is no thing. Or Nothing. In God as Nothing, Márkus traces the history of this idea through the long development of the Jewish and Christian philosophical and literary tradition. He identifies it in the Bible, in the thought of Augustine, Aquinas and Eckhart, and in the poetry of R.S. Thomas and Paul Celan. He explores its significance in relation to Hegel, Feuerbach and Marx. In the second part of the book, he shines the ‘single white light’ of the idea through various prisms, to help all of us divine further enlightenment in the refractions that emerge.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Gilbert Markus was a Dominican friar for 21 years, and ordained a priest in 1987. He studied theology at Blackfriars Oxford and at Edinburgh University (B.D., M.Th., S.T.L.) and taught and wrote on Liberation Theology for many years. On leaving the Dominicans in 2002, he taught and researched in medieval ‘Celtic’ history and theology at the universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh and Glasgow. He is currently finishing historical research in a four-year AHRC-funded research project on the monastery of Iona. His many books include The Radical Tradition: Saints in the Struggle for Justice and Peace (DLT, 1992).

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Editore
Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1917362048
ISBN 13 
9781917362047
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
256
Contatto del produttore
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