A Question About "Emanation"
The Babylonian Enuma Elish mentions that the succession of the gods from chaos was considered an "emanation."
Armstrong feels that this notion is very important for the history of the God of the monotheistic religions. Any thoughts?
posted by Gerry Smit @ 5:01 PM
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You best explain this one in class because I even read it and I still don't understand what she's talking about...!
Plotinus observed there was nothing personal in how the One produced the new. He saw the One as beyond all human categories, including that of personality. He returned to the ancient myth of ‘emanation’ to explain the radiation of all that exists from this utterly simple Source, using a number of analogies to describe this process: it was like a light shining from the sun or the heat that radiates from a fire and becomes warmer as you draw nearer to its blazing core; the further a being got from its source in the One, the weaker it became.
So does Armstong think that monotheism is closer to the "source" because there is just one god? And if so what does that say about the concept of the Trinity in Christianity? Is that further from the source of the divine because we are once again fragmenting different aspects of god to fit our own image?
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