God is watching you : how the fear of God makes us human / / Dominic Johnson
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| Autore: |
Johnson Dominic (Professor of Biopolitics)
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| Titolo: |
God is watching you : how the fear of God makes us human / / Dominic Johnson
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 202/.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Religion - Philosophy |
| Fear of God | |
| Punishment - Religious aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Why me? -- Sticks and stones -- Hammer of God -- God is great -- The problem of atheists -- Guardian angels -- Nations under God -- God knows. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | ""And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die."" The biblical story of the flood crystalizes--in its terrifying, dramatic simplicity--the universally recognized concept of divine punishment. For millennia human civilizations have relied on such beliefs to create moral order. People who commit crimes or other bad deeds, we are told, will suffer retribution, while rewards--abstract or material--await those who do good. This simple but powerful idea has lon |
| Titolo autorizzato: | God is watching you |
| ISBN: | 0-19-026231-1 |
| 0-19-989564-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809992803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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