Autor: Voegelin, Eric

Buch: Israel and Revelation

Titel: Israel and Revelation

Stichwort: Suche nach der richtigen Balance der Existenz, Abraham

Kurzinhalt: Genesis: Baum der Erkenntnis, Göttersöhne und Menschentöchter, Turm zu Babel; after the three great revolts and falls a chastened man, Abram..., Psalm 8

Textausschnitt: From the three accounts man emerges as a creature in the likeness of God, specifically heightened above all other creatures through his knowledge of, and freedom for, good and evil. He has difficulties in finding the right balance of his existence, and is overbearingly inclined to reach out toward the divinity of which he is only an image. He is thrown back to an understanding of his condition by the consciousness of death, of his human passing compared with divine lasting; he is made aware of the precariousness and weakness of his existence by overpowering natural catastrophes; and the diversification of mankind into peoples teaches him that there is no "One World" of humanity which rivals heaven, but only a humble adjustment of every society in its allotted space and time to the majesty of cosmic order.
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With a splendid dramatic grip on his sources the author of Genesis welds the three accounts into a spiritual history of man. After the three great revolts and falls a chastened man, Abram, is called forth by the Lord to leave Babylon to settle in a new country and found the nation in whom all nations of the earth shall be blessed