Zera Yacob · Philosophy
Why Zera Yacob’s inquiry made him not an atheist but a purified theist: a cosmological argument from the order of creation to a Creator, and prayer understood as the soul’s honest converse with the God whom reason discovers.
You learned that Zera Yacob’s critique of religion led him not to atheism or skepticism but to a purified theism: a first-cause argument for a Creator, knowledge of God through the order of creation, and prayer as rational contemplation, which he practiced on the Psalms in his cave. Explain his argument for God…
Leads to the Book of Psalms.
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