Autor: Voegelin, Eric

Buch: Israel and Revelation

Titel: Israel and Revelation

Stichwort: Israel, Ijob, Paulus: Stufen des Übergangs vom Mythos zum transzendenten Gott

Kurzinhalt: Rationlisierung des Mythos, A world that is empty of gods begins to cast its shadow over the mood of man; Paulus, Brief an Galater, Römer

Textausschnitt: Better than in the Babylonian sources themselves can stages in the struggle for rationalization be discerned in the traditions of Israel.
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In search of his God, as the last verses show, Job moves to the four quarters like a Babylonian king or Chinese emperor, but the search in space no longer reveals a divine presence because the earth is no longer the analogue of the divine sky. A world that is empty of gods begins to cast its shadow over the mood of man ...
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