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Overview: The Love of Destiny: The Sacred and the Profane in Germanic Polytheism is a relatively short book by Dan McCoy, the author of the articles on Norse-Mythology.org. Written in a style that is somewhere between a philosophy essay and a prose poem, The Love of Destiny is a much fuller presentation of many of the recurring big-picture themes in the articles on this site. It attempts to articulate the heart of the indigenous Germanic worldview – the unconditional affirmation of the world as the very embodiment of the gods – and to show how the rest of that worldview is structured around that central idea. To do this, it “translates” the narratives and images that comprise the pre-Christian mythology of the Norse and other Germanic peoples into the more familiar idiom of conceptual language, and contrasts this polytheistic mythology with the mythology of four monotheistic religions: ancient Judaism, Greek rationalism, Christianity, and modern science. It argues that many of the most pressing philosophical and theological debates of the last several centuries, such as those over the “problem of evil” and the relationship between the “objective” and the “subjective,” frame the issues in counterproductive, “otherworldly” ways, and shows how Germanic polytheism offers compelling alternatives. Ultimately, it evokes a way of engaging with the more-than-human world that honors our inescapable entanglement within it.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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