The conflicts between the three great monotheistic religions - Christianity, Jud
aism 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 a
ncient civilizations of the Egyptians, Hittites and Babylonians, Jewish monothei
sm 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, Christiani
ty 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 monothei
sms by analyzing the basic possibilities stemming from anti-Paganism, anti-Judai
sm, anti-Islamism and anti-Christianism.
