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Terror of God : Attar, Job and the metaphysical revolt / Navid Kermani ; translated by Wieland Hoban.
- Title
- Terror of God : Attar, Job and the metaphysical revolt / Navid Kermani ; translated by Wieland Hoban.
- Author
- Kermani, Navid, 1967-
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, c2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Hoban, Wieland
- Description
- xiii, 266 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- How can suffering and injustice be reconciled with the idea that God is good, that he loves humans and is merciful to them? Job's question runs through the history of the three monotheistic religions. Time and again, philosophers, theologians, poets, prophets and laypersons have questioned their image of God in the light of a reality full of hardship. Some see suffering as proof of God's existence, others as a demonstration that there can be no God, while others still respond by rebelling against Him.
- Uniform Title
- Schrecken Gottes. English
- Alternative Title
- Schrecken Gottes.
- Attar, Job and the metaphysical revolt
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Originally published in German as Der Schrecken Gottes. München : Beck, 2005.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-257) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Job's question -- The book of suffering -- The justification and terror of God -- The rebellion and terror of God -- History of a counter-theology.
- ISBN
- 9780745645261
- 0745645267
- 9780745645278 (pbk.)
- 0745645275 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 668946700
- SCSB-10626779
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library