Beyond Yahweh and Jesus

Download or read book Beyond Yahweh and Jesus written by Robert Langs and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-10-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Yahweh and Jesus constitutes the first in-depth psychoanalytic study of the Old and New Testaments in terms of God's role in enabling humans to cope with death and the anxiety it evokes. The journey on which this study embarks leads through an examination of the related topics of knowledge acquisition; divine wisdom; conscious and unconscious morality; what the author argues is the failure of psychoanalysis to ally itself with religion and the failure of religion to bring peace to the world; and a proposition for how to enhance both religious and secular forms of morality and adaptation to death anxiety.