The Savage Side - Reclaiming Violent Models of God

The Savage Side critiques the primary models of deity in dominant political theologies, especially those which align God with the natural world. The justice-seeking, political revolutionary God that the oppressed worship has dwindled back to the political fervor from which it sprang. In its place, a God based on our struggling existence in the natural world emerges, terrifyingly indifferent to any political or moral ideology.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Natural Theology or Political Theology? Chapter 2 God in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Chapter 3 God in the Landscape Chapter 4 God and the Elemental in Levinas Chapter 5 God and the Critiques of Religion Chapter 6 Conclusion

About the author

B. Jill Carroll is professor of religious studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Product details

• Authors: Jill B. Carroll
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2002
• EAN: 9780742512825
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1282-5
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 231 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 213 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Philosophy, Nature & existence of God, Nature and existence of God and of the Divine