
Kocku von Stuckrad on Monotheist Astrologies in (Late) Antiquity
Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
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Koko Vanchtokhat is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. He says that belief in fate and astrology was widespread in classical period. But with rise of Christian monotheism, it's thought to be end of Golden Age of astrology. Koko: A fatalistic astrology would limit freedom of divine or of God but also take away category of sin.
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