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" Atheism in Christianity : "
Ernst Bloch ; with an introduction by Peter Thompson ; translated by J.T. Swann.
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BL
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856851
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Atheismus im Christentum.English
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Bloch, Ernst,1885-1977.
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Atheism in Christianity : : the religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom /\ Ernst Bloch ; with an introduction by Peter Thompson ; translated by J.T. Swann.
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New ed.
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London ;New York :: Verso,, 2009.
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xxx, 257 pages ;; 21 cm
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1844673715
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: 1844673944
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: 9781844673711
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: 9781844673940
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| Notes
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Originally published: Herder and Herder : New York, 1972.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Round the corner -- Against the goad -- Glance at slave-talk -- Scandal and folly -- No longer so submissive -- From sighting to murmuring -- Renunciation and semi-disillusioned -- The strange ubiquity of the Bible and its language -- Whose Bible? -- Prometheus a myth too -- From murmuring to contention -- "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness" -- Contrary principles in the Bible: creation and apocalypse -- Discernment of myths -- Marxism and religion -- Bible criticism as detective work -- Exodus in the concept of Yahweh -- An unheard-of saying of Jesus': departure-in-full -- Early traces of the break-away: first thoughts about the serpent -- Breakthrough in the theocratic concept of Yahweh: first thoughts about the Exodus-light (Ex. 13.21) -- Nazirites and prophets: Yahweh's exodus into universal moral providence; pre-vision -- The bounds of patience -- Aut Caesar aut Christus? -- How restless men are -- Mildness and the "light of his fury" (William Blake) -- Jesus' exodus into Yahweh -- Christ's secret name is son of man, not son of God; the "mystery of the kingdom" -- The diminishing greatness of the son of man: the "smallness" of the kingdom -- The title "son of man" is eschatological, the later title "kyrios-christos" wholly cultic -- The total christocentricity of John 17, the "key to the gospel" -- Paul's so-called patience of the cross. His appeal to resurrection and life -- Resurrection, ascension, and parousia: wish-mysterium in spite of sacrificial death -- Second thoughts about the serpent: the Ophites -- Second thoughts about the Exodus-light: Marcion's gospel of an alien god without this world -- Aut logos aut cosmo? -- The call before the door -- Orpheus -- Exodus and cosmos in the stoics and in gnosticism -- Astral-myth in the Bible -- Logos-myth again: man and spirit, Feuerbach, Christian mysticism -- Further consequences of the logos-myth: Pentecost: veni creator spiritus, not nature but kingdom -- This-wordliness in the astral-myth -- The strange, strictly non-parallel breakthrough of both man-centered and materialist systems into the "divine transcendence," which they replace -- Sources of life-force -- The only safe handhold: openness -- True enlightenment is neither trivial nor shallow -- Enlightenment and atheism do not overthrow the "satanic" with the God-hypostasis -- Moral, and final, sources of life-force -- Sources of possible death-force: departure -- Hunger, "something in a dream," "God of hope," thing-for-us -- Conclusion: Marx and the end of Alienation.
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Christianity and atheism.
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Christianity and atheism.
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Bible-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible.
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| Dewey Classification
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261.21
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BR128.A8B5513 2009
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