Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism. By Bernard Schweizer
In Peter Shaffer’s academy-award winning Amadeus, the narrator is loosely based on Salieri, a rival classical composer to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri burns with envy, then burns a crucifix while praying to God: ‘From now on we are enemies … Because You choose for Your instrument [Mozart] a boas...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 427-431 |
| Review of: | Hating god (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2011) (Van, Benjamin B. De)
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| Summary: | In Peter Shaffer’s academy-award winning Amadeus, the narrator is loosely based on Salieri, a rival classical composer to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri burns with envy, then burns a crucifix while praying to God: ‘From now on we are enemies … Because You choose for Your instrument [Mozart] a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature on earth as far as I am able.’, The bitterly resentful Salieri and his dramatist are two fictional and historic individuals Bernard Schweizer scrutinizes in Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls010 |