A Critical Theology of Genesis

A Critical Theology of Genesis
Author :
Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 169
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781137595096
ISBN-13 : 1137595094
Rating : 4/5 (094 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Critical Theology of Genesis by : Itzhak Benyamini

Download or read book A Critical Theology of Genesis written by Itzhak Benyamini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Itzhak Benyamini presents an alternative reading of Genesis, a close textual analysis from the story of creation to the binding of Isaac. This reading offers the possibility of a soft relation to God, not one characterized by fear and awe. The volume presents Don-Abraham-Quixote not as a perpetual knight of faith but as a cunning believer in the face of God's demands of him. Benyamini reads Genesis without making concessions to God, asking about Him before He examines the heart of Adam, Noah, Abraham, and the other knights of faith (if they are really that). In this way, the commentary on Genesis becomes a platform for a new type of critical theology. Through this unconventional rereading of the familiar biblical text, the book attempts to extract a different ethic, one that challenges the Kierkegaardian demand of blind faith in an all-knowing moral God and offers in its stead an alternative, everyday ethic. The ethic that Benyamini uncovers is characterized by family continuity and tradition intended to ensure that very axis—familial permanence and resilience in the face of the demanding and capricious law of God and the everyday hardships of life.


A Critical Theology of Genesis Related Books

A Critical Theology of Genesis
Language: en
Pages: 169
Authors: Itzhak Benyamini
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-01 - Publisher: Springer

GET EBOOK

In this book Itzhak Benyamini presents an alternative reading of Genesis, a close textual analysis from the story of creation to the binding of Isaac. This read
The Theology of the Book of Genesis
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: R. W. L. Moberly
Categories: Bibles
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

The book of Genesis contains foundational material for Jewish and Christian theology, both historic and contemporary, and is almost certainly the most appealed-
Genesis and Christian Theology
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: Nathan MacDonald
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-03 - Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

GET EBOOK

Proceedings of a conference held July 14-18, 2009 at St. Andrews.
Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology
Language: en
Pages: 520
Authors: Bruce L. McCormack
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

`McCormack is master of this voluminous material. He is scrupulously at home in the intricate, dramatic background of Swiss socialist politics ...The result is
The Book of Genesis
Language: en
Pages: 789
Authors: Craig A. Evans
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-20 - Publisher: BRILL

GET EBOOK

Drawing on the latest in Genesis scholarship, this volume offers twenty-nine essays on a wide range of topics related to Genesis, written by leading experts in