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Religion --- Offenses against religion --- Theology --- Religions --- Délits religieux --- Théologie --- Controversial literature --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Ouvrages de controverse --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect social --- Délits religieux --- Théologie --- Social aspects. --- History and criticism.

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Sacred space --- Rites and ceremonies --- Offenses against religion --- Holy, The --- Sacrilege --- Lieux sacrés --- Rites et cérémonies --- Délits religieux --- Sacré --- Sacrilège --- Congresses. --- History --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Histoire --- Delits religieux --- Ritual --- Lieux sacrés --- Rites et cérémonies --- Délits religieux --- Sacré --- Sacrilège --- Congrès --- History. --- Lieux sacrés - Congrès --- Rites et cérémonies - Histoire - Congrès --- Sacré - Congrès --- Delits religieux - Histoire - Congrès --- Sacrilège - Congrès --- Aspect social

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Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. In God Interrupted, Benjamin Lazier tracks the ensuing debates about the divine across confessions and disciplines. He also traces the surprising afterlives of these debates in postwar arguments about the environment, neoconservative politics, and heretical forms of Jewish identity. In lively, elegant prose, the book reorients the intellectual history of the era. God Interrupted also provides novel accounts of three German-Jewish thinkers whose ideas, seminal to fields typically regarded as wildly unrelated, had common origins in debates about heresy between the wars. Hans Jonas developed a philosophy of biology that inspired European Greens and bioethicists the world over. Leo Strauss became one of the most important and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century. Gershom Scholem, the eminent scholar of religion, radically recast what it means to be a Jew. Together they help us see how talk about God was adapted for talk about nature, politics, technology, and art. They alert us to the abiding salience of the divine to Europeans between the wars and beyond--even among those for whom God was long missing or dead.

Gnosticism --- Pantheism --- Heresy --- Jewish philosophy --- God (Judaism) --- Cults --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Panentheism --- Heresies --- Offenses against religion --- Apostasy --- Judaism --- History --- History of doctrines --- Strauss, Leo. --- Scholem, Gershom, --- Jonas, Hans, --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Shalom, Gershom, --- Sholem, Gershom, --- שלום, גרשם --- שלום, גרשם, --- שלום, גרשום --- גרשם, שלום

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While it has often been recognised that the development of Christian orthodoxy was stimulated by the speculations of those who are now called heretics, it is still widely assumed that their contribution was merely catalytic, that they called forth the exposition of what the main church already believed but had not yet been required to formulate. This book maintains that scholars have underrated the constructive role of these "heretical" speculations in the evolution of dogma, showing that salient elements in the doctrines of the fall, the Trinity and the union of God and man in Christ derive from teachings that were initially rejected by the main church. Mark Edwards also reveals how authors who epitomised orthodoxy in their own day sometimes favoured teachings which were later considered heterodox, and that their doctrines underwent radical revision before they became a fixed element of orthodoxy. The first half of the volume discusses the role of Gnostic theologians in the formation of catholic thought; the second half will offer an unfashionable view of the controversies which gave rise to the councils of Nicaea, Ephesus and Chalcedon . Many of the theories advanced here have not been broached elsewhere, and no synthesis on this scale had been attempted by other scholars. While this book proposes a revision in the scholarly perception of early Christendom, it also demonstrates the essential unity of the tradition.

Church history --- Church --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Heresy --- Gnosticism --- Eglise --- Théologie dogmatique --- Hérésie --- Gnosticisme --- Catholicity. --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- Catholicité --- -Church --- -Theology, Doctrinal --- -Heresy --- -Gnosticism --- -273 --- 260.114 --- Christian doctrines --- Christianity --- Doctrinal theology --- Doctrines, Christian --- Dogmatic theology --- Fundamental theology --- Systematic theology --- Theology, Dogmatic --- Theology, Systematic --- Theology --- Ecclesiastical theology --- Ecclesiology --- Theology, Ecclesiastical --- People of God --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- Heresies --- Offenses against religion --- Apostasy --- -History. --- Schisma's. Ketterijen --- De Kerk: éénheid; heiligheid; apostoliciteit: eigenschappen --- Doctrines --- RELIGION --- Christianity / Catholic --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Catholicity --- 260.114 De Kerk: éénheid; heiligheid; apostoliciteit: eigenschappen --- Théologie dogmatique --- Hérésie --- Catholicité --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Universality --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- 273 --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. --- Church - Catholicity. --- Theology, Doctrinal - History - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Heresy - History. --- Gnosticism - History. --- Christian orthodoxy --- heresy --- dogma --- Gnostic theology --- catholic thought --- early Christendom