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Book Synopsis The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion by : Eliza Burt Gamble
Download or read book The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion written by Eliza Burt Gamble and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Book Synopsis The God-idea of the Ancients by : Eliza Burt Gamble
Download or read book The God-idea of the Ancients written by Eliza Burt Gamble and published by online-ebooks.info. This book was released on 1897 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by : Eliza Burt Gamble
Download or read book The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion written by Eliza Burt Gamble and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The God-Idea of the Ancients by : Eliza Burt Gamble
Download or read book The God-Idea of the Ancients written by Eliza Burt Gamble and published by TGS Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere is the influence of sex more plainly manifested than in the formulation of religious conceptions and creeds. With the rise of male power and dominion, and the corresponding repression of the natural female instincts, the principles which originally constituted the God-idea gradually gave place to a Deity better suited to the peculiar bias which had been given to the male organism. An anthropomorphic god like that of the Jews--a god whose chief attributes are power and virile might--could have had its origin only under a system of masculine rule.
Book Synopsis The God-Idea of the Ancients by : Eliza Gamble
Download or read book The God-Idea of the Ancients written by Eliza Gamble and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the God idea of the Ancients or sex in religion Is a stunning book.A must read for anyone of faith!New edition for 2012!Highly Recommended!
Book Synopsis The God Idea of the Ancients by : Eliza Burt Gamble
Download or read book The God Idea of the Ancients written by Eliza Burt Gamble and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the material for this volume was collected during the time that I was preparing for the press the Evolution of Woman, or while searching for data bearing on the subject of sex specialization. While preparing that book for publication, it was my intention to include within it this branch of my investigation, but wishing to obtain certain facts relative to the foundations of religious belief and worship which were not accessible at that time, and knowing that considerable labor and patience would be required in securing these facts, I decided to publish the first part of the work, withholding for the time being that portion of it pertaining especially to the development of the God idea. As mankind construct their own gods, or as the prevailing ideas of the unknowable reflect the inner consciousness of human beings, a trustworthy history of the growth of religions must correspond to the processes involved in the mental, moral, and social development of the individual and the nation. By means of data brought forward in these later times relative to the growth of the God idea, it is observed that an independent chain of evidence has been produced in support of the facts recently set forth bearing upon the development of the two diverging lines of sexual demarcation. In other words, it has been found that sex is the fundamental fact not only in the operations of Nature but in the construction of a god.
Book Synopsis The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion by : Eliza Burt Gamble
Download or read book The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion written by Eliza Burt Gamble and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a study of the primitive god-idea as manifested in monumental records in various parts of the world; through scientific investigation into the early religious conceptions of mankind as expressed by symbols which appear in the architecture and decorations of sacred edifices and shrines; by means of a careful examination of ancient holy objects and places still extant in every quarter of the globe, and through the study of antique art, it is not unlikely that a line of investigation has been marked out whereby a tolerably correct knowledge of the processes involved in our present religious systems may be obtained. The numberless figures and sacred emblems which appear carved in imperishable stone in the earliest cave temples; the huge towers, monoliths, and rocking stones found in nearly every country of the globe, and which are known to be closely connected with primitive belief and worship, and the records found on tablets which are being unearthed in various parts of the world, are, with the unravelling of extinct tongues, proving an almost inexhaustible source for obtaining information bearing upon the early history of the human race, and, together, furnish indisputable evidence of the origin, development, and unity of religious faiths.
Book Synopsis The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion by : Eliza Burt Gamble
Download or read book The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion written by Eliza Burt Gamble and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis The God-Idea of the Ancients by : Eliza Gamble
Download or read book The God-Idea of the Ancients written by Eliza Gamble and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mrs. Gamble has brought together a great amount of material, drawn chiefly from Furlong's 'Rivers of Life,' Faber's 'Pagan Idolatry,' Inman's 'Ancient Faiths,' 'Isis Unveiled,' etc. For those acquainted with these works, little comment is needed; to others it may be stated that the work before us deals largely with the worship of trees, fire, water, and the phallus. The author's views regarding the 'Evolution of Woman' are fundamental to this work. Just as Mrs. Gamble believes that woman in primitive times was socially and intellectually man's superior, so she also believes that in early religion the female idea in deity was supreme. It was only when, in his selfish might, man encroached socially upon woman's domain, that the old and beautiful religion of adoration of the universal gave way." -The Dial "A valuable and exceptionally interesting book....Glorification of woman is the keynote of this new book. Never has woman been set on a loftier pedestal than she is set here, and never have more convincing proofs of her inherent nobility and title to rulership been brought forward than in this book. The prime object of it is to show how potent woman was in primeval times and how her present degenerate state is the result of male aggressiveness....In one sense this is a controversial book, and hence is likely to arouse considerable discussion." -Literary News "Mrs. Gamble's purpose has been not only to furnish a brief outline of religious growth, but to show the effect which each of the two forces, female and male, has had upon the development of our present God idea" -The Nation "Will certainly prove interesting to the student of ancient religions." -The New Cycle "The book is really a very interesting one, written in the main, very clearly and dispassionately and with a citation of authorities that shows wide reading and a good grasp upon the central purpose of the author's thesis. Whatever one may think of the conclusions, any thoughtful person may read the chapters with curiosity and profit."-Bookman Contents PREFACE. THE GOD-IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. SEX THE FOUNDATION OF THE GOD-IDEA CHAPTER II. TREE, PLANT, AND FRUIT WORSHIP CHAPTER III. SUN-WORSHIP--FEMALE AND MALE ENERGIES IN THE SUN CHAPTER IV. THE DUAL GOD OF THE ANCIENTS A TRINITY ALSO CHAPTER V. SEPARATION OF THE FEMALE AND HALE ELEMENTS IN THE DEITY CHAPTER VI. CIVILIZATION OF AN ANCIENT RACE CHAPTER VII. CONCEALMENT OF THE EARLY DOCTRINES CHAPTER VIII. THE ORIGINAL GOD-IDEA OF THE ISRAELITES CHAPTER IX. THE PHOENICIAN AND HEBREW GOD SET OR SETH CHAPTER X. ANCIENT SPECULATIONS CONCERNING CREATION CHAPTER XI. FIRE AND PHALLIC WORSHIP CHAPTER XII. AN ATTEMPT TO PURIFY THE SENSUALIZED FAITHS CHAPTER XIII. CHRISTIANITY A CONTINUATION OF PAGANISM CHAPTER XIV. CHRISTIANITY A CONTINUATION OF PAGANISM--(Continued) CHAPTER XV. CHRISTIANITY IN IRELAND CHAPTER XVI. STONES OR COLUMNS AS THE DEITY CHAPTER XVII. SACRIFICES CHAPTER XVIII. THE CROSS AND A DYING SAVIOR
Download or read book God in Proof written by Nathan Schneider and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tour of the history of arguments for and against the existence of God, Nathan Schneider embarks on a remarkable intellectual, historical, and theological journey through the centuries of believers and unbelieversÑfrom ancient Greeks, to medieval Arabs, to todayÕs most eminent philosophers and the New Atheists. Framed by an account of SchneiderÕs own unique journey, God in Proof illuminates the great minds who wrestled with one of historyÕs biggest questions together with their arguments, bringing them to life in their time, and our own. SchneiderÕs sure-handed portrayal of the characters and ideas involved in the search for proof challenges how we normally think about doubt and faith while showing that, in their quest for certainty and the proofs to declare it, thinkers on either side of the God divide are often closer to one another than they would like to think.
Book Synopsis Battling the Gods by : Tim Whitmarsh
Download or read book Battling the Gods written by Tim Whitmarsh and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. Homer’s epic poems of human striving, journeying, and passion were ancient Greece’s only “sacred texts,” but no ancient Greek thought twice about questioning or mocking his stories of the gods. Priests were functionaries rather than sources of moral or cosmological wisdom. The absence of centralized religious authority made for an extraordinary variety of perspectives on sacred matters, from the devotional to the atheos, or “godless.” Whitmarsh explores this kaleidoscopic range of ideas about the gods, focusing on the colorful individuals who challenged their existence. Among these were some of the greatest ancient poets and philosophers and writers, as well as the less well known: Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; Socrates, executed for rejecting the gods of the Athenian state; Epicurus and his followers, who thought gods could not intervene in human affairs; the brilliantly mischievous satirist Lucian of Samosata. Before the revolutions of late antiquity, which saw the scriptural religions of Christianity and Islam enforced by imperial might, there were few constraints on belief. Everything changed, however, in the millennium between the appearance of the Homeric poems and Christianity’s establishment as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century AD. As successive Greco-Roman empires grew in size and complexity, and power was increasingly concentrated in central capitals, states sought to impose collective religious adherence, first to cults devoted to individual rulers, and ultimately to monotheism. In this new world, there was no room for outright disbelief: the label “atheist” was used now to demonize anyone who merely disagreed with the orthodoxy—and so it would remain for centuries. As the twenty-first century shapes up into a time of mass information, but also, paradoxically, of collective amnesia concerning the tangled histories of religions, Whitmarsh provides a bracing antidote to our assumptions about the roots of freethinking. By shining a light on atheism’s first thousand years, Battling the Gods offers a timely reminder that nonbelief has a wealth of tradition of its own, and, indeed, its own heroes.
Book Synopsis Biblical Ideas of Nationality by : Steven Elliott Grosby
Download or read book Biblical Ideas of Nationality written by Steven Elliott Grosby and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2002 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In this collection of essays, drawn from more than a decade of study and publication, Steven Grosby investigates ancient texts (biblical and other) from the perspective of philosophical anthropology. His work is pioneering and provocative and points the way to further research on the idea of nationality in ancient times.
Book Synopsis Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament by : John H. Walton
Download or read book Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament written by John H. Walton and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of specific Old Testament passages. This new edition of a top-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout to reflect the refined thinking of a mature scholar. It includes over 30 illustrations. Students and pastors who want to deepen their understanding of the Old Testament will find this a helpful and instructive study.
Book Synopsis Through the Eyes of the Ancients by : R. Dean Davis
Download or read book Through the Eyes of the Ancients written by R. Dean Davis and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive study on the books of Moses in the Bible"--
Book Synopsis Technology of the Gods by : David Hatcher Childress
Download or read book Technology of the Gods written by David Hatcher Childress and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology of the Gods lays out the mind-bending evidence that long-lost civilizations had attained and even exceeded our "modern" level of advancement. Westerners have been taught that humankind has progressed along a straight-line path from the primitive past to the proficient present, but the hard, fast evidence (literally written in stone!) proves that the ancients had technologies we cannot even replicate today.
Book Synopsis The Demiurge in Ancient Thought by : Carl Séan O'Brien
Download or read book The Demiurge in Ancient Thought written by Carl Séan O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the world generated and how does matter continue to be ordered so that the world can continue functioning? Questions like these have existed as long as humanity has been capable of rational thought. In antiquity, Plato's Timaeus introduced the concept of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god, to answer them. This lucid and wide-ranging book argues that the concept of the Demiurge was highly influential on the many discussions operating in Middle Platonist, Gnostic, Hermetic and Christian contexts in the first three centuries AD. It explores key metaphysical problems such as the origin of evil, the relationship between matter and the First Principle and the deployment of ever-increasing numbers of secondary deities to insulate the First Principle from the sensible world. It also focuses on the decreasing importance of demiurgy in Neoplatonism, with its postulation of procession and return.
Book Synopsis Household Gods by : Alexandra Sofroniew
Download or read book Household Gods written by Alexandra Sofroniew and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could have a deep personal and spiritual meaning. Roman houses were often filled with images of gods. Gods and goddesses were represented in mythological paintings on walls and in decorative mosaics on floors, in bronze and marble sculptures, on ornate silver dining vessels, and on lowly clay oil lamps that lit dark rooms. Even many modest homes had one or more religious objects that were privately venerated. Ranging from the humble to the magnificent, these small objects could be fashioned in any medium from terracotta to precious metal or stone. Showcasing the collections in the Getty Villa, this book’s emphasis on the spiritual beliefs and practices of individuals promises to make the works of Greek and Roman art more accessible to readers. Compelling representations of private religious devotion, these small objects express personal ways of worshiping that are still familiar to us today. A chapter on contemporary domestic worship further enhances the relevance of these miniature sculptures for modern viewers.
