Coping with the gods
| Titel: | Coping with the gods |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Leiden : Brill, 2011 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 173 |
| ISBN: | 9789004210905 |
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| Zusammenfassung: |
Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not contradictory, representations of the divine world in a complementary rather than mutually exclusive manner. From this perspective the six chapters explore problems inherent in: order vs. variety/chaos in polytheism, arbitrariness vs. justice in theodicy, the peaceful co-existence of mono- and polytheistic theologies, human traits in divine imagery, divine omnipotence vs. limitat. |
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