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A Violent God-image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann
 
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A Violent God-image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 388 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (17 Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0826415849
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826415844
  • Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16.2 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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'Drewermann's contribution is indispensable for two reasons: because he takes mental/spiritual suffering seriously and works for the liberation of those who, 'crippled by fear all their lives, are prevented from risking themselves.' Secondly, because he does something for the world-wide church that Latin-American liberation theologians cannot achieve but need: he challenges the mega institution's attempt to stabilize power by means of fear and names authoritarian religion 'a form of violence.' - Dorothee Solle

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Theologian and psychotherapist Eugen Drewermann is probably the best-selling religious writer in Europe over the past quarter century. The sheer enormity of his principal books - The Cleric (900 pp.), The Structure of Evil (1969 pp.), Faith in Freedom: Depth Psychology and Dogmatics (720), Depth Psychology and Exegesis (2 vols.), and Psychoanalysis and Moral Theology (2 vols.) - has thwarted publication of his works in English translation to date. Drewermann's scathing attack on the clerical mentality, ideology, and culture (The Cleric), based on his psychotherapeutic work with clergy, led to his being silenced by Roman Catholic authorities in 1991 and suspended from the priesthood in 1992. T This is the first full-length introduction to Drewermann in English and includes extensive quotations from his works. Drewermann's primary intuition is that Christianity has done violence to people by using fear as the primary motive for faith-fear of hell, fear of exclusion, fear of God. At the heart of Drewermann's nonviolent interpretation of key Christian beliefs is his analysis of a violent image of God that characterizes traditional interpretations of sin and the cross. It is this God image, opposed to human desires and self-realisation, that sanctified the killings of millions of peoples in wars declared to be 'just' and legitimated the violent exploitation of nonhuman nature and the aggressive economic exploitation of non-Christian cultures.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How my cat started to love Eugen Drewerman ..., 16 Dec 2005
Our cat always sits attentively next to me and my notebook computer when I am writing reviews. Today, however, she sits on the CD player, because from this the voice of Eugen Drewermann (*1940, a Mahatma Ghandi type from the small German town Paderborn) sounds strangely instead of blues. I explain to my cat, which through and through doubtingly stares at me with her yellow owl eyes, that Drewermann also has written a book "about the immortality of the animals" and that he makes well in this a bit again of that one which has done the church to particularly black cats in the Middle Ages: these were crucified namely instead, if enough witches did not queue to the burning. My cat starts increasingly more interested and benevolently to listen to the warm reading voice of Eugen Drewermann. Under the protection of a jumper always like a Prince Eisenherz (a famous European Cartoon-Hero) Drewerman rides against Rome - courageous in the case of doubt he prefers against the church the Freudian psychoanalysis. He has written about the fairytale Andersens of the sea virgin very profoundly and also very much touching about love and eroticism. And since we look just to Scandinavia (because that sea virgin-sculpture sits in the port of Copenhagen): The Danish Bishop Lise Lotte Rebel has just suspended the priest Thorkild Grosboll from the service in Lyngby-Taarbaek at Copenhagen, because he does not want to imagine God like an old man with a white beard any more. This also could have happened to Drewermann in Germany, oh no, it already has happened to him long ago: In 1991 he got sermon ban and was suspended from the priesthood. There are always troublemakers like Drewermann or Thorkild Grosboll or still famous: Luther. Of course Drewermann also has written over Giordano Bruno which was brought from the pope to the stakes. And of course also against the mischief of making wars. Actually Eugen Drewermann would be the best conceivable pope. But this will never happen. Therefore he has fulfilled a wish, cherished for a long time, on the occasion of his 65th birthday himself: He has withdrawn from the Roman Catholic church. This is very easy: In the corridor of the most nearest district court you have to find the room with the application forms. After all: his voice on CD and his thinking about the useable contents of the Christianity, indiscriminately all institutional rough mistakes: this voice declaring patiently, whispering along like a gutter monotonously can be bought (for Germans - in the U.K. you shoud read this book "Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann"). Our cat on the CD player has begun in the meantime to purr comfortably. Drewermann has reached at least this now, such a kind of Robin Hood in the Bible woods, a Wilhelm Tell who does not want to greet ever a pope, a type Asterix with a small horde of church critical harvest funny in the background which are always happy when they rediscover him in any TV talkshow. Where he gave his church leaving having been carried out in that last one of Sandra Maischberger, German television. Of course Drewermann has constant opponents and the new German Pope Joseph Ratzinger is not one of his friends. Pope Benedikt the XVI. (the English church critical bishop John Shelby Spong wrote mockingly "the Pit Bull of orthodoxy ") surely has something else on the day schedule than to read a Drewermann-introduction. But you should do so ...
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