Greek gods’ world-immanence contrasts with Christianity’s separative cosmology

Evidence

At first, poets tended to authorize their speech by calling it mythos— an inspiration from the gods (what moderns call, in a new accent, the supernatural world ); later, the Sophists taught that all speech originated with humans (who lived in this world ). “Whereas the Christian worldview increasingly separates God from this world,” writes Jan Bremmer, “the gods of the Greeks were not transcendent but directly involved in natural and social processes… . It is for such connections as between the human and divine spheres that a recent study has called the Greek world-view ‘interconnected’ against our own ‘separative’ cosmology.” — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 113

Categorization

• XREF: The immanence-transcendence contrast is the same axis Asad uses elsewhere to mark why Islam (with law-like divine involvement) reads as premodern; connects to reader’s goal on Islam vs Christianity coding.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does Asad later claim Islam’s God remains more ‘interconnected’ like the Greek model, which is why Islam is coded religious/premodern?