Los Rebeldes De Dios/ the Rebels of God

by Jean Markale

En la mayoría de las religiones y mitologías, la idea de divinidad conlleva la noción de poder ilimitado que, sin importar su nombre, garantiza el buen funcionamiento del cosmos, donde los hombres apenas son engranajes. Cuando esos engranajes funcionan mal, cuando hay cataclismos climáticos, telúricos, siderales o personales, el hombre se rebela contra el orden divino establecido de una vez y para siempre. Y de la rebelión resultan, a veces, innovaciones felices para la humanidad.
Los ángeles, Lilit, Caín, Jesucristo, Prometeo, Adán y Eva, los Atlantes, Edipo, son algunos de "los rebeldes de Dios", expresión que se refiere tanto a los personajes que se rebelan contra Dios como a los que se rebelan en el nombre de Dios.

Jean Markale investiga, en doce capítulos apasionantes, a aquellos "rebeldes de Dios", propone una interpretación innovadora de la Biblia y de los mitos, y guía al lector, a través de un viaje iconoclasta y apasionante, hacia la memoria de la humanidad. Un estudio sutil que plantea una pregunta teológica: el ser humano ¿no habrá sido programado por el Creador para desobedecer?

244 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 2003

About the author

Jean Markale is the pen name of Jean Bertrand, a French writer, poet, radio show host, lecturer, and retired Paris high school French teacher.

He has published numerous books about Celtic civilisation and the Arthurian cycle. His particular specialties are the place of women in the Celtic world and the Grail cycle.

His many works have dealt with subjects as varied as summations of various myths, the relationships of same with occult subjects like the Templars, Cathars, the Rennes le Château mystery, Atlantis, the megalith building civilisations, druidism and so on, up to and including a biography of Saint Columba.

While Markale presents himself as being very widely read on the subjects about which he writes, he is nonetheless surrounded by controversy regarding the value of his work. Critics allege that his 'creative' use of scholarship and his tendency to make great leaps in reasoning cause those following the more normative (and hence more conservative) mode of scholars to balk. As well as this, his interest in subjects that his critics consider questionable, including various branches of the occult, have gained him at least as many opponents as supporters. His already weakened reputation was further tarnished in 1989, when he became involved in a plagiarism case, when he published under his own name a serious and well-documented guide to the oddities and antiquities of Brittany, the text of which had already been published twenty years before by a different writer through the very same publisher.
Also a source of controversy is his repeated use of the concept of "collective unconscious" as an explanatory tool. This concept was introduced by Carl Jung, but in modern psychology it's rejected by the vast majority of psychologists.