Making the heavens speak : religion as poetry / Peter Sloterdijk ; translated by Robert Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947- author.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Poetry--Religious aspects--Philosophy.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, 2023.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Deus ex machina, Deus ex cathedra

1. The gods in the theatre

2. Plato's contestation

3. Of the true religion

4. Representing God, being God: an Egyptian solution

5. On the best of all possible heaven dwellers

6. Poetries of power

7. Dwelling in plausibilities

8. The theopoetical difference

9. Revelation whence?

10. The death of the gods

11. "Religion is unbelief": Karl Barth's intervention

12. In the garden of infallibility: Denzinger's world

II. Under the high heavens

13. Fictive belonging together

14. Twilight of the gods and sociophany

15. Glory: poems of praise

16. Poetry of patient endurance

17. Poetry of exaggeration: religious virtuosos and their excesses

18. Kerygma, propaganda, supply-side offense, or, when fiction is not to be trifled with

19. On the prose and poetry of the search

20. Freedom of Religion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1509547495

9781509547494

1509547509

9781509547500

OCLC:

1304814955