Fate, suffering and God: the crisis of the belief in a moral world order in the book of Ecclesiastes
The collapse of the belief in a moral world order led Qoheleth neither to religious nor to ethical nihilism. We should misunderstand his manifoldly repeated admonition to use the futile day, his carpe diem, were we to interpret it as an expression of a bare and plain hedonism. In his great meditatio...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1986
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Old Testament essays
Year: 1986, Volume: 4, Pages: 1-13 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Ecclesiastes
B Faith |
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