Title
Atheism in Christianity
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Author
BLOCH, Ernst
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Introduction by
THOMPSON, Peter
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Description
“In the long unavailable Atheism in Christianity,
Ernst Bloch provides an original historical examination of Christianity in an
attempt to find its social roots. He pursues a detailed study of the Bible and
its long standing fascination for “ordinary and unimportant” people.
In the Bible stories’ promise of utopia and their antagonism to authority,
Bloch locates the appeal to the oppressed —the desire “to transcend
without transcendence.” [...] At the Bible’s heart he finds a heretical
core and claims, paradoxically, that a good Christian must necessarily be an
atheist.” (V)
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Publishing house
Verso
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Year
2009