The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery / In this bold and illuminating new work, Richard Elliott Friedman probes a chain of mysteries that concern the presence or absence of God. He begins with a fresh, insightful reading of the Hebrew Bible, revealing the profound mystery and significance of the disappearance of God there. Why does the God who is known through miracles and direct interaction at the beginning of the Bible gradually become hidden, leaving humans on their own by the Bible's end? How is it possible that the Bible, written over so many centuries by so many authors, depicts this diminishing visible presence of God - and the growing up of humankind - so consistently? Why has this not been common knowledge? Friedman then investigates this phenomenon's place in the formation of Judaism and Christianity.Friedman probes a chain of mysteries that concern the presence or absence of God, including the connection between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky who each independently developed the idea of the death of God.

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	God
Classification	231 FRI
Publisher	Boston & New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1995
Subject	GodPhilosophyScience & Religion.Pneumatology--Christianity--TheologyChurch--HistoryBible, O.T.-Criticism, InterpretationNietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1844-1900--ReligionBig Bang TheoryCreation--Criticism and interpretationKabbalahHidden God--Biblical TeachingBible. O.T.--Theology.Cabala--Kabbalah
Description	335
ISBN	9780316294348
URL	https://books.google.com.hk/books/about/The_Disappearance_of_God.html?id=1ISuuUxOQhAC&redir_esc=y

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Author of 'Who Wrote The Bible?