TY  - BOOK
AU  - Svenungsson,Jayne
TI  - Divining History: Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit 
T2  - Making Sense of History
SN  - 9781785331732
AV  - B5802.U86 S9413 2016 
U1  - 181/.06 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Jewish philosophy
KW  - RELIGION / Theology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology of Religion, History (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Chapter 1 The God of History --; Chapter 2 The Ages of History --; Chapter 3 Romantic History --; Chapter 4 History after God --; Chapter 5 The Politics of History --; Post script A Theopolitical Vision --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in equal parts by theology and historical theory, this book offers a provocative exploration of this double-edged legacy. Author Jayne Svenungsson rigorously pursues a middle path between utopian arrogance and an enervated postmodernism, assessing the impact of Jewish and Christian theologies of history on subsequent thinkers, and in the process identifying a web of spiritual and intellectual motifs extending from ancient Jewish prophets to contemporary radicals such as Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785331749?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785331749
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785331749/original
ER  -