The Essence of ChristianityCosimo, Inc., 1 déc. 2008 - 364 pages German philosopher and anthropologist LUDWIG ANDREAS VON FEUERBACH (1804-1872) was a powerful influence on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Feuerbach's atheism is reflected in their socialist philosophies, and that humanized theology-essentially, a rational approach to understanding concepts of God and Christianity-gets its greatest exploration here. In The Essence of Christianity-this is the classic 1853 translation of the 1841 German original-Feuerbach discusses the "true or anthropological" root of religion, exploring how everything from the nature of God to the mysteries of mysticism and prayer can be viewed through such a prism. He goes on to examine the "false" essences of religion, including contradictions in ideas of the existence of a deity, and then how God and religion are merely expressions of human emotion. This is essential background reading for understanding everything from Marx's Communist Manifesto to modern apolitical philosophies of atheism. |
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... thou ; he can put himself in the place of another , for this reason , that to him his species , his essential nature , and not merely his individuality , is an object of thought . Religion being identical with the distinctive ...
... thou ; he can put himself in the place of another , for this reason , that to him his species , his essential nature , and not merely his individuality , is an object of thought . Religion being identical with the distinctive ...
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... thou sinkest into deep reflection , forgetting thyself and what is around thee , dost thou govern reason , or is it not reason which governs and absorbs thee ? Scientific enthusiasm — is it not the most glorious triumph of intellect ...
... thou sinkest into deep reflection , forgetting thyself and what is around thee , dost thou govern reason , or is it not reason which governs and absorbs thee ? Scientific enthusiasm — is it not the most glorious triumph of intellect ...
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... thou seest , so far extends thy nature ; and conversely . The eye of the brute reaches no farther than its needs , and its nature no farther than its needs . And so far as ... thou thinkect the infinite , thou 8 THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY .
... thou seest , so far extends thy nature ; and conversely . The eye of the brute reaches no farther than its needs , and its nature no farther than its needs . And so far as ... thou thinkect the infinite , thou 8 THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY .
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Ludwig Feuerbach. It follows that if thou thinkect the infinite , thou per- ceivest and affirmest the infinitude of the power of thought ; if thou feelest the infinite , thou feelest and affirmest the infinitude of the power of feeling ...
Ludwig Feuerbach. It follows that if thou thinkect the infinite , thou per- ceivest and affirmest the infinitude of the power of thought ; if thou feelest the infinite , thou feelest and affirmest the infinitude of the power of feeling ...
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... thou hold feeling to be the organ of the infinite , the divine being ? And is not the nature of feeling in general also the nature of every special feeling , be its object what it may ? What , then , makes this feeling religious ? A ...
... thou hold feeling to be the organ of the infinite , the divine being ? And is not the nature of feeling in general also the nature of every special feeling , be its object what it may ? What , then , makes this feeling religious ? A ...
Table des matières
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The Mystery of the Suffering God | 59 |
The Mystery of the Trinity and the Mother of God | 65 |
The Mystery of the Logos and Divine Image | 74 |
The Mystery of the Cosmogonical Principle in God | 80 |
APPENDIX | 279 |
The Religious Emotions Purely Human | 281 |
God is Feeling Released from Limits | 283 |
God is the Highest Feeling of Self | 284 |
Distinction between the Pantheistic and Personal God | 285 |
Nature without Interest for Christians | 287 |
In God Man is his Own Object | 289 |
Christianity the Religion of Suffering | 292 |
The Mystery of Mysticism or of Nature in God | 87 |
The Omnipotence of Feeling or the Mystery of Prayer | 120 |
The Mystery of FaithThe Mystery of Miracle | 126 |
The Mystery of the Resurrection and of the Miraculous Conception | 135 |
The Mystery of the Christian Christ or the Personal God | 140 |
The Distinction between Christianity and Heathenism | 150 |
The Significance of Voluntary Celibacy and Monachism | 160 |
The Christian Heaven or Personal Immortality | 170 |
PART II | 185 |
The Contradiction in the Existence of God | 197 |
The Contradiction in the Revelation of God | 204 |
The Contradiction in the Nature of God in General | 213 |
The Contradiction in the Speculative Doctrine of God | 226 |
The Contradiction in the Trinity | 232 |
The Contradiction in the Sacraments | 236 |
The Contradiction of Faith and Love | 247 |
Concluding Application | 270 |
Mystery of the Trinity | 293 |
Creation out of Nothing | 297 |
Egoism of the Israelitish Religion | 298 |
The Idea of Providence | 299 |
Contradiction of Faith and Reason | 304 |
The Resurrection of Christ | 306 |
The Christian a Supermundane Being | 307 |
The Celibate and Monachism | 308 |
The Christian Heaven | 315 |
What Faith Denies on Earth it Affirms in Heaven | 316 |
Contradictions in the Sacraments | 317 |
Contradiction of Faith and Love | 320 |
Results of the Principle of Faith | 326 |
Contradiction of the GodMan | 334 |
Anthropology the Mystery of Theology | 336 |
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