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The Word of Light
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The Word of Light

Piercing the Veil of Chaos
By: Shlomo Giora Shoham

£39.99

This book is a treatise on the genesis of the world, the birth of God, and the role of man. Was the cosmos an intelligent design? Is man the crown of creation, or will evolution relegate us to fossils? The book examines human norms, values, and morals.

One of the fundamental enigmas of our existence, and for that matter, God’s existence, is the act of creation. Has the cosmos been created ex…
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One of the fundamental enigmas of our existence, and for that matter, God’s existence, is the act of creation. Has the cosmos been created ex nihilo or was it an intelligent design by God? Does God, having created the world, let it evolve and develop on its own, subject to the rules of evolution and chance; or does God intervene in every step of evolution in a deus ex machina manner? What is the role of man in creation? Is it as central as existentialism and quantum mechanics assure us: that without human consciousness interacting with energy-matter, there would not be any objects and life forms? Is man the crown of creation permanently, or once evolution forms a more effective connecting agent between spirit and energy-matter, will man be relegated to the world of fossils? The book concludes with a thorough examination of human norms, values and morals. As such, this book constitutes a comprehensive treatise on the genesis of the world, the birth of God, and the role of man.

Shlomo Giora Shoham, a professor of law and an interdisciplinary lecturer at Tel Aviv University, is a world-renowned criminologist, who has published more than a hundred books and some thousand articles on crime, deviance, philosophy, religion, psychology, and the human personality. Over the years, he has developed his innovative personality theory, a highly appraised new theory of personality development. In 2003, Professor Shoham was awarded the Israel Prize for research in criminology. Previously, he was awarded the Sellin-Glueck Award, the highest prize in American criminology, and recently the prestigious Emet Prize. He is the recipient of a decoration from the prime minister of France. Professor Shoham has lectured all over the world, and has been a resident at the universities of Oxford, Harvard, and the Sorbonne

Cover: William Blake’s Ancient of Days: God as an Architect from 1794, depicting Urizen.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-4438-0102-X
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-0102-7
  • Date of Publication: 2009-03-19

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  • ISBN: 1-4438-0296-4
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-0296-3
  • Date of Publication: 2009-03-19
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  • BIC: HRLB, JHM, JMS
  • THEMA: QRVG, JHM, JMS
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