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Divine Company: Invitations

by F. T. Kettering
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781442163560
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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  • Pages: 158
  • Original Price: USD 12.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 241 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Comparative Religion

"Do you believe in God?" "Do you believe in Satan?" "Do you believe in Santa?" One of the world's most profound religions doesn't really care what we believe. It has no holy books and no theologians to tell us what they mean. Artists, poets, and musicians shape its approach to the sacred, creating lots of vivid metaphors but not one dogma. This religion began over 3000 years ago, when the Olympian gods and goddesses first revealed themselves to mortals. These deities have been called the best ideas of a great civilization. Might they still have something to say to us today? DIVINE COMPANY begins a cycle of five volumes, together titled BRILLIANT GODS. These books challenge 2000 years of received opinion about Greek Polytheism. They ask us to expand our notion of what the word "religion" means. Is it possible that what we believe is far less important than what we imagine?

From the age of ten I tried to reconcile what I learned in school with what I learned in church. Science gave me a convincing way to understand physical reality. A Christian upbringing gave me inspiring stories that saw the world in a wholly different light. Although each approach was compelling in its sphere, the two often disagreed about matters of fact. One could not believe both at once. At Oberlin, at Berkeley, and in the college towns that followed, I wondered if this conflict might be irresolvable. Two things looked to be certain. The scientific model, while always evolving, values a single method consistent across cultures. By contrast, religions vary widely in their notions of evidence as well as in their claims. I began to compare the paths to religious truth, first looking west, then east. In the 1970s I took my first trip to Greece, visiting many classical sites and collections. Back home, I paid more attention to mythology. In museums, I sought out classical art. I devoured books on ancient religion. I returned to Greece for research. Forty years later, I know that scientific knowledge and spiritual knowledge can exist amicably together, each reinforcing the other, because they have done so before. Such a conclusion derives from scholarship but even more from direct experience of the art, architecture, and literature of the Greeks.

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