“I Am the Ghost Who E’er Denies”: An Exodus-based Biblical Sociology of Religion and Its Role in Society

“I Am the Ghost Who E’er Denies”: An Exodus-based Biblical Sociology of Religion and Its Role in Society

This article argues that a study of the role of religion in society has to start with an understanding of the discursive encounter with the Sacred. This paradoxical encounter with the God who is, and is not, is the foundation of imagining a society in which possibilities and impossibilities remain i...

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Main Author: Locker, Markus Ekkehard
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
Subjects:
Sacred
Discourse
Image of God
Imagination
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.theology-faculty-pubs-10612022-04-04T16:00:31Z “I Am the Ghost Who E’er Denies”: An Exodus-based Biblical Sociology of Religion and Its Role in Society Locker, Markus Ekkehard This article argues that a study of the role of religion in society has to start with an understanding of the discursive encounter with the Sacred. This paradoxical encounter with the God who is, and is not, is the foundation of imagining a society in which possibilities and impossibilities remain in constant dialogue. In conversation with society, religion offers viewpoints that deconstruct and reconstruct social contracts and values. Religion is the “Ghost who e’er denies” in the sense of a Hegelian dialectic whose center is the productive imagination. 2017-01-31T08:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/theology-faculty-pubs/63 https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/i-am-the-ghost-who-eer-denies Theology Department Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Sacred Discourse Image of God Imagination
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topic Sacred
Discourse
Image of God
Imagination
spellingShingle Sacred
Discourse
Image of God
Imagination
Locker, Markus Ekkehard
“I Am the Ghost Who E’er Denies”: An Exodus-based Biblical Sociology of Religion and Its Role in Society
description This article argues that a study of the role of religion in society has to start with an understanding of the discursive encounter with the Sacred. This paradoxical encounter with the God who is, and is not, is the foundation of imagining a society in which possibilities and impossibilities remain in constant dialogue. In conversation with society, religion offers viewpoints that deconstruct and reconstruct social contracts and values. Religion is the “Ghost who e’er denies” in the sense of a Hegelian dialectic whose center is the productive imagination.
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author Locker, Markus Ekkehard
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title “I Am the Ghost Who E’er Denies”: An Exodus-based Biblical Sociology of Religion and Its Role in Society
title_short “I Am the Ghost Who E’er Denies”: An Exodus-based Biblical Sociology of Religion and Its Role in Society
title_full “I Am the Ghost Who E’er Denies”: An Exodus-based Biblical Sociology of Religion and Its Role in Society
title_fullStr “I Am the Ghost Who E’er Denies”: An Exodus-based Biblical Sociology of Religion and Its Role in Society
title_full_unstemmed “I Am the Ghost Who E’er Denies”: An Exodus-based Biblical Sociology of Religion and Its Role in Society
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publisher Archīum Ateneo
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