A Violent God-Image An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann,9780826418357

A Violent God-Image An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann

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ISBN13: 9780826418357
ISBN10: 082641835X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-06-02
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

Theologian and psychotherapist Eugen Drewermann has been the most significant, prolific and bestselling theological writer in the German language over the past quarter century. Drewermann shows that religion, including Christianity, turns violent men

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
INTRODUCTION 3(20)
Nazi Germany and a Violent God-Image
3(7)
Spiritual and Psychological Nonviolence
10(3)
Eugen Drewermann — Glimpse of the Public Figure
13(6)
The Work of Eugen Drewermann — A Trojan Horse
19(4)
Chapter 1 FEAR, EVIL, AND THE ORIGINS OF A VIOLENT GOD-IMAGE 23(108)
Historical Context: The Banality of Evil and the Impotence of Christianity
23(10)
Fear and the Origin of a Violent God-Image
33(1)
Results of the Exegetical Analysis of Genesis 3 and 4:1-16
34(13)
The Serpent
37(1)
From Harmony with God to a Heteronomous God-Image
38(7)
The Deadly Effects of Human Sacrifice for the Divine: Genesis 4:1-16
45(2)
Results of the Psychoanalytic Analysis of Genesis 3 and 4:1-16
47(43)
Universal Images of the Psyche?
47(4)
Sin as a Neurosis Before God
51(4)
A Bird's-eye View of the Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Genesis 2-11
55(4)
Genesis 3 in Psychoanalytic Perspective
59(28)
Genesis 4:1-16 in Psychoanalytic Perspective
87(3)
Results of the Philosophical and Theological Interpretation of Genesis 3 and 4:1-16
90(37)
Philosophical Analysis of the Structure of "Sin" as Universal and the Result of Free Choice
91(5)
The Fall in an Analysis of Dasein
96(10)
Genesis 4:1-16 in Existential-philosophical Perspective
106(2)
Theological Interpretation of Genesis 3 and 4:1-16
108(11)
Faith as Trust: The Alternative to Sin as Fear
119(5)
An Existential Proof of God and the Reality of Psychic Images
124(3)
Conclusion
127(4)
Chapter 2 WAR, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF INNER AND OUTER NATURE: EFFECTS OF A VIOLENT GOD-IMAGE 131(78)
Fear, Trust, and the Importance of Psychic Images
131(4)
Fear, War, and God
135(74)
Roots of War—from Struggle for Survival to Fears of the Spirit
137(8)
The Confusion of Religion with Ethics
145(7)
War and Christianity, Or: Belligerent Consequences of a Violent God-Image
152(34)
A Religious Solution for the Problem of War
186(23)
Chapter 3 RECOVERING THE NONVIOLENT GOD-IMAGE OF JESUS: WORKING THROUGH A SADOMASOCHISTIC INTERPRETATION OF THE CROSS 209(64)
Violent God-Image and Sacrificial Religion
212(7)
The Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the Redemption from a Violent God-Image
219(54)
Jesus Facing the Cross: The End of Fear
220(6)
The Historical Jesus and a Typological Reading of History
226(18)
The Symbol of the Cross and the Redemption from a Violent God-Image
244(29)
Chapter 4 ANALYZING THE CLERGY-IDEAL OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 273(54)
Diagnosis
280(12)
Etiology
292(8)
Development Through Psychological Stages, Or: Psychogenesis of the Evangelical Counsels
300(20)
Poverty and Oral Conflicts
302(2)
Obedience and Anal Conflicts
304(7)
Chastity and Oedipal Conflicts
311(9)
Therapeutic Treatment Suggestions
320(7)
The Spiritual Value of the Evangelical Counsels
323(2)
Religious Reorientation and Reform of the Education of the Clergy
325(2)
CONCLUSION 327(8)
Appendix 1 DREWERMANN IN AMERICA 335(4)
Appendix 2 A NOTE ON TRANSLATION 339(4)
WORKS CITED 343(34)
INDEX 377

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