What is it like to be a god? A philosophical clarification of instances of divine suffering in the Psalter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12857669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaco Gericke (0000-0002-1304-7751, Vaal University of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Verbum et Ecclesia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1609-9982 • E-ISSN: 2074-7705 |
| Publisher | AOSIS (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.4102/ve.v33i1.700 |
| OpenAlex | W1991339975 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. (Mark Twain)In philosophy of religion, there is a long history of belief that divine reality is immutable, although this has changed recently. In this article, the author takes a closer look at what some texts in the Psalms assumed about what it feels like for a god to suffer mentally. By paying attention to what is presupposed in language about negative divine emotions, the nature of mental anguish in the life of a deity is elucidated from examples in the text in which Yhwh is said to have states of mind involving anger, hate, compassion, jealousy and grief
Anger · Anguish · Compassion · Epistemology · Jealousy · Problem of Evil · Psychoanalysis · Race (biology · Sociology · Theology · American Literature and Humor Studies · Moravian Church and William Blake · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |