The conflicts between the three great monotheistic religions -
Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are shaping our world more than
ever before. In this important new book Peter Sloterdijk returns to
the origins of monotheism in order to shed new light on the
conflict of the faiths today. Following the polytheism of the
ancient civilizations of the Egyptians, Hittites and Babylonians,
Jewish monotheism was born as a theology of protest, as a religion
of triumph within defeat. While the religion of the Jews remained
limited to their own people, Christianity unfolded its message with
proclamations of universal truth. Islam raised this universalism to
a new level through a military and political mode of expansion.
Sloterdijk examines the forms of conflict that arise between the
three monotheisms by analyzing the basic possibilities stemming
from anti-Paganism, anti-Judaism, anti-Islamism and
anti-Christianism. These possibilities were augmented by internal
rifts: a defining influence within Judaism was a separatism with
defensive aspects, in Christianity the project of expansion through
mission, and in Islam the Holy War. Today these three religions are
now called upon to adjust their relations from peaceful coexistence
to dialogue: zealous collectives must become parties in a civil
society.
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