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- Title
What is it like to be a god? A philosophical clarification of instances of divine suffering in the Psalter.
- Authors
Gericke, Jaco W.
- Abstract
In philosophy of religion, there is a long history of belief that divine reality is immutable, although this has changed recently. In this article, the author takes a closer look at what some texts in the Psalms assumed about what it feels like for a god to suffer mentally. By paying attention to what is presupposed in language about negative divine emotions, the nature of mental anguish in the life of a deity is elucidated from examples in the text in which Yhwh is said to have states of mind involving anger, hate, compassion, jealousy and grief.
- Subjects
PSALTERS; PHILOSOPHY of religion; BIBLE. Psalms; NAME of God; GOD in Christianity
- Publication
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2012, Vol 33, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1609-9982
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4102/ve.v33i1.700