Ascendant Modern Essays on Polytheism and Theology 1st Edition by Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Edward Butler, Patrick Dunn, John Michael Greer, Brandon Hensley, Wayne Keysor, Gwendolyn Reece, Michael Hardy ISBN 1794182845 9781794182844

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ISBN 10: 1794182845

ISBN 13: 978-1794182844

Author:  Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Edward P. Butler, Patrick Dunn, John Michael Greer, Brandon Hensley, Wayne Keysor, Gwendolyn Reece, Michael Hardy 

Ascendant: Modern Essays on Polytheism and Theology 1st Edition: Theology, the discipline that analyzes, examines, and seeks to explain religious ideas, is a vibrant area of inquiry. Scholars and philosophers have produced countless works of theology over the past several thousand years.In the West, however, virtually all theology concerns monotheistic faith systems. Polytheism escapes the notice of most scholars, and those who do address it rarely write books intended for a general, non-academic audience. Polytheology must become its own active discipline if modern Pagan practice is to deepen and grow. Monotheistic assumptions so pervade our culture that even those few people born into polytheist religions (or those who grew up with no religion at all) cannot help but be influenced by them. Polytheology raises questions that cannot be adequately addressed by answers originally developed in a monotheistic context. Because polytheism is inherently open to variation, the goal of polytheology is not to arrive at a single truth so much as to elucidate the possibilities, to honor and embrace differences, to explore the nature of the Gods and their relationship to humanity. These philosophical ideas provide a greater understanding of the Cosmos, Gods and humanity, and topics such as morality, mortality, and myth. This volume — with contributions from Edward P. Butler, Patrick Dunn, John Michael Greer, Brandon Hensley, Wayne Keysor, and Gwendolyn Reece — is, we hope, a useful addition to this young but growing field.

 

Ascendant: Modern Essays on Polytheism and Theology 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Theology: What It Is, Why We Need It by Michael Hardy … 7  
2. From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief by Rebecca Buchanan … 9
3. Why Theology? by Wayne Keysor … 13
4. Approaching Theology Through the Divine Individual by Brandon Hensley … 21
5. The One and the Many: An Essay on Pagan Neoplatonism by John Michael Greer … 41 
6. Two Models of Polytheism by Edward P. Butler … 63
7. You Can’t Offend the Gods by Patrick Dunn … 81
8. The Hellenic Gods and the Polis by Gwendolyn Reece … 89 
9. Of Lying Gods and True Religion by Wayne Keysor … 111
10. Moral Humans and the Immoral Gods: An Examination of the Problem of Divine Evil in Contemporary Paganism by Wayne Keysor … 125

 

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