Shaman and Sage (The Divine Self, vol. 1)
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Shaman and Sage (The Divine Self, vol. 1)

The Roots of "Spiritual but Not Religious" in Antiquity

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Shaman and Sage (The Divine Self, vol. 1)

The Roots of "Spiritual but Not Religious" in Antiquity

About this book

The first volume of Michael Horton's magisterial intellectual history of "spiritual but not religious" as a phenomenon in Western culture 
 
Discussions of the rapidly increasing number of people identifying as "spiritual but not religious" tend to focus on the past century. But the SBNR phenomenon and the values that underlie it may be older than Christianity itself. 
 
Michael Horton reveals that the hallmarks of modern spirituality—autonomy, individualism, utopianism, and more—have their foundations in Greek philosophical religion. Horton makes the case that the development of the shaman figure in the Axial Age—particularly its iteration among Orphists—represented a "divine self." One must realize the divinity within the self to break free from physicality and become one with a panentheistic unity. Time and time again, this tradition of divinity hiding in nature has arisen as an alternative to monotheistic submission to a god who intervenes in creation. 
 
This first volume traces the development of a utopian view of the human individual: a divine soul longing to break free from all limits of body, history, and the social and natural world. When the second and third volumes are complete, students and scholars will consult  The Divine Self as the authoritative guide to the "spiritual but not religious" tendency as a recurring theme in Western culture from antiquity to the present.

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Information

Publisher
Eerdmans
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781467467902
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Greek Ancient History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Introduction: Inventing the “Divine Self”: Where We Are Headed
  9. 1. Survivor to Shaman: Discovering the Divine Self
  10. 2. Dancing for Dionysus: New Myths for the Utopian Stage
  11. 3. Shaman to Sage: Religion of the One
  12. 4. “The True Mystics” : Orpheus as Plato’s Muse
  13. 5. “The Foes! The Foes!” : Soul Saving in Alexandria
  14. 6. Hermes Trismegistus: The Cult without Temples
  15. 7. Savior of or from the World? : Christianity and Gnosis
  16. 8. Orphic Exegesis: The Eternal Gospel
  17. 9. A Christian Reconstruction of Late Neoplatonism: St. Paul’s Philosopher-Convert
  18. 10. Cosmotheism as Philosophical Religion: Eriugena’s Dionysius
  19. 11. Prophetic Gnosis: Dreaming of Utopia
  20. Works Cited