Political Demonology
On Modern Marcionism
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paperback isbn: 978-1-4982-0129-2
hardcover isbn: 978-1-4982-8587-2
ebook isbn: 978-1-4982-0130-8
Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Names: Faber, Richard. | Feiler, Therese, translator and editor. | Mayo, Michael, translator and editor.
Title: Political demonology : on modern Marcionism / Richard Faber ; edited by Therese Feiler and Michael Mayo.
Description: Eugene, OR : Cascade Books, 2018 | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: isbn 978-1-4982-0129-2 (paperback) | isbn 978-1-4982-8587-2 (hardcover) | isbn 978-1-4982-0130-8 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Marcion, of Sinope, active 2nd century. | Auerbach, Erich, 1892–1957. | Bloch, Ernst, 1885–1977. Atheismus im Christentum. | Schmitt, Carl, 1888–1985. | Gnosticism. | Religion and literature. | Religion and sociology. | Church and state—Catholic Church.
Classification: BT1415 .F33 2018 (paperback) | BT1415 .F33 (ebook)
Manufactured in the U.S.A. 08/04/17
Translation supported by Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Original publication: Richard Faber, Politische Dämonologie: Über modernen Marcionismus © Verlag Königshausen & Neumann GmbH, D-Würzburg 2006
Excursus I original publication: Richard Faber, “Nemo contra deum nisi deus ipse”: Gegen Hans Blumenbergs Politische Polytheologie”, Teil B in: Der Prometheus-Komplex. Zur Kritik der Politotheologie Eric Voegelins und Hans Blumenbergs © Verlag Königshausen & Neumann GmbH, D-Würzburg 1984
Excursus II original publication: Richard Faber, ‚Der Hahn‘, in: Die besten Nebenrollen. 50 Porträts biblischer Randfiguren, ed. by Marion Keuchen, Helga Kuhlmann, Harald Schroeter-Wittke © Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Leipzig 2006