TY - BOOK ID - 77874615 TI - All the names of the Lord : lists, mysticism, and magic PY - 2008 SN - 1281957208 9786611957209 0226388727 9780226388724 9781281957207 9780226388700 0226388700 6611957200 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - God (Christianity) KW - Elohim KW - Jehovah KW - Yahveh KW - Yahweh KW - Yehovah KW - Yhwh KW - Name. KW - 231.133.12 KW - 291.214 KW - 291.214 Goden: personifieerde abstracties en zuivere geesten KW - Goden: personifieerde abstracties en zuivere geesten KW - 231.133.12 Namen van God KW - Namen van God KW - Name KW - divinity, god, mysticism, spirituality, religion, magic, christianity, dionysius the areopagite, myth, authorship, kabbalah, 72 names, naming, bible, hierarchy, nameless, exegesis, scripture, apostle, tower of babel, septuagint, printing, miscellany for travelers, abagar, judaism, nonfiction, metaphysics, balkans, palestine, provence, history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874615 AB - Christians face a conundrum when it comes to naming God, for if God is unnamable, as theologians maintain, he can also be called by every name. His proper name is thus an open-ended, all-encompassing list, a mystery the Church embraces in its rhetoric, but which many Christians have found difficult to accept. To explore this conflict, Valentina Izmirlieva examines two lists of God's names: one from The Divine Names, the classic treatise by Pseudo-Dionysius, and the other from The 72 Names of the Lord, an amulet whose history binds together Kabbalah and Christianity, Jews and Slavs, Palestine, Provence, and the Balkans. This unexpected juxtaposition of a theological treatise and a magical amulet allows Izmirlieva to reveal lists' rhetorical potential to create order and to function as both tools of knowledge and of power. Despite the two different visions of order represented by each list, Izmirlieva finds that their uses in Christian practice point to a complementary relationship between the existential need for God's protection and the metaphysical desire to submit to his infinite majesty-a compelling claim sure to provoke discussion among scholars in many fields. ER -