The Ontology of Gods An Account of Enchantment, Disenchantment, and
This volume offers a novel philosophical thesis on the ontology of religion, and proposes a new conceptual repertoire to deal with supernatural religion. Jibu Mathew George offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the source and dynamics of religi
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Jibu Mathew George
The Ontology of Gods An Account of Enchantment, Disenchantment, and Re-Enchantment
Jibu Mathew George English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad, India
ISBN 978-3-319-52358-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-52359-0
ISBN 978-3-319-52359-0 (eBook)
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Hier stehe ich und kann nicht anders! Gott helfe mir, Amen! (Here I stand and can do no other! God help me, Amen) – Martin Luther, at the Diet of Worms.
To the One who engages my perceptions in the unlikeliest manner and for my Eugene and Juanita, twins, whose arrival irreversibly changed the coordinates of my existence
FOREWORD
Jibu Mathew George has embarked on an endeavour, which while being not unique in the topic it deals with, is exceptional in its method. What have become the source for his research are those previous historical attempts to come close to the concept of the supernatural from within the frameworks of religion, philosophies of God, and other related ideas. The term “supernatural” is postulated here as naturally non-natural, and hence, demands from the reader only the intellectual honesty to go about it critically. George has found his point of departure in the mutual exclusivism of two responses to the supernatural – enchantment and disenchantment. Disenchantment (Entzauberung), a term coined in the German thought, is here a tool to shed light on the innumerable conceptions of the supernatural. To the cu
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