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362 pages 21 cm.; "Reprints v. 17 of the Religious perspectives series."; A translation of La symbolique du mal, the 2d pt. of Finitude et culpabilé, published as v. 2 of the author's Philosophie de la volonté.; Part I. The Primary symbols : defilement, sin, guilt -- Phenomenology of "confession" -- Speculation, myth, and symbol -- Criteriology of symbols -- The Philosophical "Re-enactment" of confession -- Ch. I. Defilement -- The Impure -- Ethical terror -- The Symbolism of Stain -- The Sublimation of dread -- Ch. II. Sin -- The Category of "Before God" : the covenant -- The Infinite demand and finite commandment -- The "Wrath of God" -- The Symbolism of sin : (1) Sin as "Nothingness" -- The Symbolism of sin : (2) Sin as positive -- Ch. III. Guilt -- Birth of a new stage -- Guilt and penal imputaiton -- Scrupulousness -- The Impasse of guilt -- Recapitulation of the symbolism of evil in the concept of the servile will.; Part II. The "Myths" of the beginning and of the end -- The Symbolic fuction of myths -- From the primary symbols to myths -- Myth and gnosis : the symbolic function of the narration -- Toward a "typology" of the myths of the beginning and the end of evil -- Ch. I. The Drama of creation and the "Ritual" vision of the world -- Primordial chaos -- The ritual re-enactment of the creation and the figure of the King -- A "Recessive" form of the drama of creation : the Hebrew King -- A "Mutant" form of the drama of creation : the Hellenic Titan -- Ch. II. The Wicked god and the "tragic" vision of existence -- The Pre-tragic themes -- The Crux of the tragic -- Deliverance from the tragic or deliverance within the tragic?; Ch. III. The "Adamic" myth and the "Eschatological" vision of history -- The Penitential motivation of the "Adamic" myth -- The Structure of the myth : the "Instant" of the fall -- The "Lapse of time" of the drama of temptation -- Justification and eschatological symbols -- Ch. IV. The Myth of the exiled soul and salvation through knowledge -- The Archaic myth : "Soul" and "body" -- The final myth -- Savlation and knowledge -- Ch. V. The Cycle of the myths -- From the statics to the dynamics of the myths -- The Reaffirmation of the tragic -- The Appropriation of the myth of Chaos -- The Struggle between the Adamic myth and the myth of exile -- The Symbol gives rise to thought -- Religious perspectives : its meaning and purpose / Ruth Nanda Anshen.; 

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