The Savage Side: Reclaiming Violent Models of God

by B. Carroll and Jill B. Carroll

In this book, B. Jill Carroll uses the nature writing of Annie Dillard and the philosophical categories of Emmanual Levinas to critique the models of God that drive contemporary political theologies, especially feminist and liberation theologies. These political theologies ignore the amoral and often harsh aspects of our existence in the natural world, even though they often align God with the cosmos. Political theologies excise from their models...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742512819
• ISBN13: 9780742512818
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"