God's zeal
Subtitle: the battle of the three monotheisms
By: Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Wieland Hoban.
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780745645063; 9780745645070
Subjects: Monotheism; Religions
Other titles: Battle of the three monotheisms
Work titles: Gottes Eifer.
Description: "In this important new book Peter Sloterdijk returns to the origins of monotheism in order to shed new light on the conflict of the faiths today. Following the polytheism of the ancient civilizations of the Egyptians, Hittites and Babylonians, Jewish monotheism was born as a theology of protest, as a religion of triumph within defeat. While the religion of the Jews remained limited to their own people, Christianity unfolded its message with proclamations of universal truth. Islam raised this universalism to a new level through a military and political mode of expansion. Sloterdijk examines the forms of conflict that arise between the three monotheisms by analyzing the basic possibilities stemming from anti-Paganism, anti-Judaism, anti-Islamism and anti-Christianism. These possibilities were augmented by internal rifts: a defining influence within Judaism was a separatism with defensive aspects, in Christianity the project of expansion through mission, and in Islam the Holy War."--Back cover.
Notes: "First published in German as Gottes Eifer. Vom Kampf der drei Monotheismen"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The premises; title: The formations; title: The battle fronts; title: The campaigns; title: The matrix; title: The pharmaka; title: The parables of the ring; title: After-zeal.