Author: Debray, Régis
Title: God : An Itinerary
Description: London, Verso, 2004. orig.boards. 25x17cm, 307 pp, Translated by Jeffrey Mehlman.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: A reader’s guide; An endpoint called origin; High atop the dune; Alphabetical liftoff; Portable yet homebound; One for all; The mediating body; Salve regina; The last flame; Parricidal Christ; Every man for himself; The eternity of the eternal. ["God, who has changed the lives - and deaths - of men and women, has in turn changed His face and His meaning several times since His birth 3,000 years ago. He may have kept the same name throughout, but his characteristics have changed across the centuries and across nations. The omnipotent and punitive God of the Hebrews is not the same consoling and intimate God of the Christians, and is certainly not identical with the impersonal cosmic Energy of the New Agers. Regis Debray's purpose in this major new book is to trace the episodes of the genesis of God, the paths of His itinerary, and the costs of His survival. Debray proceeds 'mediologically', by taking the spotlight away from the front of the theological stage and moving it backstage to the machinery of divine production- going back from the Law, to the Tables themselves; and by scrutinizing the down-to-earth aspects of Heaven. In this way, he is able to focus his attention not on what was written, but on how it was written: with what tools, on what surface, for what social purpose, and in what physical environment. Debray believes that, in order to seek how God's fire was transferred from the desert to the prairie-from the Holy Land to the New World we must suspend philosophical questions) and limit ourselves to empirical information" - publisher's description].

Keywords: History of Religion, God, Theology, Christianity, , , , ,