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    This document contains summaries of two books on religious studies: 1) Philosophical Theology, Volume Three by Robert Cummings Neville presents a plausible sacred worldview for religious participation as the concluding volume in a trilogy advancing a systematic philosophical theology. 2) Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism by Andrei A. Orlov explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts, focusing on how antagonists mirror angelic and divine features through mimetic imagery in two Slavonic pseudepigrapha works.

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    This document contains summaries of two books on religious studies: 1) Philosophical Theology, Volume Three by Robert Cummings Neville presents a plausible sacred worldview for religious participation as the concluding volume in a trilogy advancing a systematic philosophical theology. 2) Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism by Andrei A. Orlov explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts, focusing on how antagonists mirror angelic and divine features through mimetic imagery in two Slavonic pseudepigrapha works.

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    religious studies

    Religion

    Divine Scapegoats

    Philosophical Theology,
    Volume Three
    Robert Cummings Neville

    Demonic Mimesis
    in Early Jewish Mysticism
    Andrei A. Orlov

    The concluding volume in a trilogy


    advancing a systematic philosophical
    theology, this book presents
    a plausible sacred worldview for
    religious participation.

    Explores the paradoxical


    symmetry between the divine
    and demonic in early Jewish
    mystical texts.

    Through the development of philosophical theology, Neville has


    built a unique, multidisciplinary, comparative, nonconfessional
    theological system, one that addresses concerns and provides
    tools for scientific and humanistic scholars of religion,
    postmodern thinkers, intellectuals from both secular and
    religious backgrounds, and those interested in the global state
    of religion today.
    Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy,
    Religion, and Theology and Dean Emeritus of the School of
    Theology at Boston University. He is the author of many books,
    including Ultimates: Philosophical Theology,Volume One; Existence:
    Philosophical Theology,Volume Two; and Religion in Late Modernity,
    all published by SUNY Press.
    February 416 pp
    $100.00 hc 978-1-4384-5699-7
    $200.00 hc set of all three volumes 978-1-4384-5711-6

    Divine Scapegoats is a wideranging exploration of


    the parallels between the
    heavenly and the demonic
    in early Jewish apocalyptical
    accounts. In these materials, antagonists often mirror features
    of angelic figures, and even those of the Deity himself, an
    inverse correspondence that implies a belief that the demonic
    realm is maintained by imitating divine reality. Andrei A. Orlov
    examines the sacerdotal, messianic, and creational aspects of
    this mimetic imagery, focusing primarily on two texts from
    the Slavonic pseudepigrapha: 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of
    Abraham. These two works are part of a very special cluster of
    Jewish apocalyptical texts that exhibit features not only of the
    apocalyptic worldview but also of the symbolic universe of
    early Jewish mysticism. The Yom Kippur ritual in the Apocalypse
    of Abraham, the divine light and darkness of 2 Enoch, and the
    similarity of mimetic motifs to later developments in the Zohar
    are of particular importance in Orlovs consideration.
    Andrei A. Orlov is Professor of Judaism and Christianity in
    Antiquity at Marquette University. He is the author of several
    books, including Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish
    Demonology, also published by SUNY Press.
    May 320 pp
    $95.00 hc 978-1-4384-5583-9

    www.sunypress.edu

    Religion is the third and final


    volume in Robert Cummings
    Nevilles systematic development
    of a new philosophical theology.
    Unfolding through his earlier volumes, Ultimates and Existence,
    and now in Religion, philosophical theology considers firstorder questions generally treated by religious traditions
    through philosophical methods while reflecting Nevilles long
    engagement with philosophy, theology, and Eastern and Western
    religious traditions. In this capstone to the trilogy, Neville
    provides a theory of religion and presents a sacred worldview
    to guide religious participation. His philosophical theory of
    value enlightens religions approaches to ethics, spirituality, and
    religious institutional living and collaboration. With a detailed
    examination of plausibility conditions for sacred worldviews,
    the book concludes with an exploration of religionless religion
    for which institutions of religion are of penultimate value.

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