Theophany: The Spirit of Ancient Greek Religion

By Walter F. Otto

Theophany is an open and unequivocal confession of pagan piety, a piety that requires no sacred scripture, is non-dogmatic, knows nothing of redemption and resurrection, and is unfamiliar with an omnipotent creator god. Instead, it recognizes a plethora of divine and semi-divine beings. Such a perspective has proven offensive to many. Not only to the early Christians and their theologians, for whom paganism could not be a matter of indifference. So they relegated it to the realm of demonic and magical powers. For Christians, inclusion of pagan piety within their narratives of religious history is rendered impossible, as is evident in the recent phase of Protestant theology and its attempt to demythologize faith. Myth and word are intrinsically united, and not only within the context of the Greek language and religion. The purging of all things mythical from texts and from life deprives modern man in ways that become apparent when we open our eyes to the starkness and lack of imagery in the modern world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DFXSMX5L
• ISBN13: 9798337982762
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 114 Pages
• Dimensions: 11.7" x 0.3" x 8.3"