@inbook{ea6bf9df527d4d029cd2943f5d1c4aff,
title = "Response to Anathea Portier-Young",
abstract = "The fear of the Lord should be understood as an emotional response to divine power (PortierYoung). Equating fear of God with worship or with obedience reduces it to a pious spirituality on the one hand or to a political-ethical agenda on the other. Both options, Portier-Young argues, have the unsettling implication that the notion “fear of the Lord” loses its disturbing potential. By relocating the fear of the Lord in the semantic field of emotions, Portier-Young convincingly demonstrates that we have to reconsider a particular potentially violent side of God, namely divine power over life and death. [...]",
author = "T.T.J. Pleizier",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
series = "Homiletische Perspektiven/Homiletic Perspectives",
publisher = "Lit Verlag",
pages = "35--40",
editor = "Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm",
booktitle = "Preaching the Fear of God in a Fear-Filled World",
}