...This chapter focuses on Julian of Norwich, the most attractive and most original figure in medieval English mysticism. Many people consider Julian of Norwich to be a spiritual authority through her unique revelations of the human love of a maternal God. Her work not only moves readers more deeply...

...This chapter offers a Sophiological interpretation of the dogma of the Name of Jesus. The Name of God does not differ formally from other proper names: it, like they, is a naming that adheres to its subject in a special way and insofar as it is identified with it. This very subject, in the given...

... to the humanity of Christ. The chapter shows that this notion is problematic. In the religious literature and in common parlance, Christ is almost ubiquitously referred to as God. The chapter also explores the standard, long-standing theology of Christ's person and natures as well as the late medieval...

... emphasis on Christ's divinity. The chapter begins with how the thirteenth-century texts that told how the God-man interacted regularly with people make clear the difficulties of describing that interaction. It then investigates how literature from the nunnery of Helfta at the end of the thirteenth century...

...This concluding chapter explores the Beowulf poet's plans and symbolisms for the epic poem. The poet had been hesitant to let Beowulf be bested by a monster with satanic characteristics since he wished to emphasize the omnipotence of God. Moreover, the poet avoided making any...

... metaphysical meaning, Job and Ahab bears the similarity of complaints about God as being invisible, omnipotent, and unaccountable. Apocalypticism Job Job individual Leviathan Lotan Yahweh Zophar Matthew Bildad Eliphaz Satan Old Testament Bayle Pierre Books of Revelation Cain Satan Milton...

... are characterized by antithetical first principles about God, soul, and their duties to their fellow men. The quest for moral and metaphysical first principles in the novel is primarily focused on the issues of theodicy and eschatology. During the writing of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville had been...

... with the body. As the body is to blame for much of the evil in the world, an embodied God in the form of Jesus Christ cannot be tolerated. But there are unintended consequences both to this critique of the body and its Christological application that threaten to undo Tolstoy's radical Christ project...

...This chapter focuses on the escalations of a God. It starts with an analysis of the creation story in the Bible. The chapter also includes Nietzsche's theory of how the seventh day of the creation is an allusion to God's boredom. It notes Kant's philosophy of existence is not a real predicate...

...This chapter looks into corporeality. It discusses the ancient theology thought of the rivalry of the heavenly princes against the humans even before creation. Human “nature” was thereby bestowed an honor that would have been contrary to the angels' sense of dignity if God had not similarly...

...This chapter discusses the escalation of the concept of God. Anselm of Canterbury, who is the most profound thinker in the Christian tradition of the first millennium after Origen, demonstrated that the concept on which he built his “ontological argument” did not satisfy the exacting criteria...

... that the existence of God and the soul do not require a rational proof such as René Descartes sets forth in the Meditations. Aristotle Bacon Francis Descartes René Galileo Galilei Newton Sir Isaac Vico Giambattista works cited other than New Science Grotius Hugo 1583–1645 Hobbes Thomas...

...This chapter recounts the encounter of Attorney Dimitris Vogazlis—a resident of Greece who came from Bulgaria—with an elderly Bulgarian minister of the Mother of God Church. Since the repeated clashes between the local Greeks and the Bulgarian refugees had prevented people from coming to church...

... into that of philosophy, along with Jacques Derrida's comments on Kant's basic premise. It then considers Kant's rejection of the other “proofs” of the existence of God and the “moral” proof he provides as a saving alternative. It shows that Kant, by making rationally grounded moral principles the “beginning...

...This chapter examines the responses and alternatives of four philosophers to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's conception of God as spirit or Geist: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Ludwig Feuerbach. More specifically...

... to be offered to the God of War. Ujimoto and Sadayuki thought that such an activity was not for a warrior to engage in, but Yoshizane scolded them and acquiesced to Kagetsura's requirements. Anzai Saburōdayū Kagetsura Satomi Yoshizane Nobutoki of the Maro Ujimoto Sadayuki God of War Anzai Saburōdayū...

...This chapter delves into the relationship between God, human beings, and nature, as imagined by Dominican preacher Vicent Ferrer's erstwhile hosts, the city council of Valencia. It focuses on who was thought to hold the keys to bread and wine, who had a right to them, and how they were used...

...This chapter examines the council documents, which describe droughts as the direct result of God's anger at humankind. The council responded slightly differently to each type: there were differences in the council's material and religious responses to droughts, plagues, floods, and locusts...

... religion. Almost all Muslims adhere to key doctrines, such as the oneness of God and the finality of Muhammad's prophecy. The chapter explains how differences between different Muslim societies develop slowly over time, which argues that societies manifest bonds of similarity that cross cultural boundaries...

... was then bishop of Antioch. The chapter then considers Libanius's references to the individual gods and looks at the distribution of these references over the course of his life. Whereas in the orations there is no perceptible difference, the letters show that, by and large, the individual gods...