This is a memoir by Frank Schaeffer, the son of Dr Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984) - a man who will be remembered as one of the architects of the American Religious Right. The subtitle of the book is "How I grew up as one of the elect, helped found the religious right, and lived to take all (or almost all) of it back".
Index
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Thursday, 4 February 2016
"The Invention of God" by Thomas Roemer
This book, by Thomas Roemer of the Collège de France, seeks to trace the evolution of "the god Yhwh, a desert war god who became the one unique God of the monotheistic religions".
Labels:
Bible,
Hebrew Bible,
history,
Israelite history,
Judaism,
Old Testament
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