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This 3 page paper is an analysis of the chapter “High Atop the Dune” from the book “God: An Itinerary” by Regis Debray. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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at least a partial understanding of him, then it seems likely that as part of this development, the environments and times he inhabited would have an impact on God. This
paper considers one chapter of Debrays book, "High Upon a Dune." Discussion Debrays book considers the changes God has undergone over the millennia since he appeared. Certainly the God of
the Old Testament, thundering judgment and threatening punishment bears little resemblance to the gentle Jesus of the New Testament, or the "higher power" that less religious people discuss today. The
changes in these concepts of God, Debray argues, can be traced, and sometimes they are traced to the environment. In this particular essay he wants to consider the development of
monotheism in the desert, and why it should have developed there. Debrays basic argument here is one that others have mentioned: the desert tends to create a monotheistic belief system.
The desert is barren, cruel, challenging; it can take life very quickly if a traveler isnt alert. Such an environment seems to lend itself to the creation of only one
God, not two or many. The beliefs that encompass many gods usually come from areas of the world where there are lush rain forests and other vegetation; the teeming mass
of life suggests that there is more than one god present. (This analysis of course is not sufficient to explain ancient Egypt and its crowded pantheon, but Egypt seems something
of an anomaly anyway.) Debray argues that the very concept of God is an extremely abstract idea, and the desert, with its sparse vegetation, strange animals and plants and scarce
water-its life-threatening conditions in fact-lends itself to abstract thinking (Debray, 2004). There is something about the desert that invites contemplation and thoughts of eternity; it may be that the desert
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