Drama of Atheist Humanism

Name: Drama of Atheist Humanism
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ISBN: 9780898704433

ISBN-10: 089870443X

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Authors: Henri de Lubac, Mark Sebanc

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De Lubac traces the origin of 19th century attempts to construct a humanism apart from God, the sources of contemporary atheism which purports to have "moved beyond God." The three persons he focuses on are Feuerbach, who greatly influenced Marx; Nietzsche, who represents nihilism; and Comte, who is the father of all forms of positivism. He then shows that the only one who really responded to this ideology was Dostoevsky, a kind of prophet who criticizes in his novels this attempt to have a society without God. Despite their historical and scholarly appearance, de Lubac's work clearly refers to the present. As he investigates the sources of modern atheism, particularly in its claim to have…

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List price: $27.95
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Publication date: 11/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 539
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Foreword	p. 9
Preface	p. 11
Atheist Humanism	p. 17
Feuerbach and Nietzsche	p. 19
A Tragic Misunderstanding	p. 19
Feuerbach and the Religious Illusion	p. 26
Nietzsche and the "Death of God"	p. 42
The Dissolution of Man	p. 58
Nietzsche and Kierkegaard	p. 73
The Birth of Tragedy	p. 73
Myth and Mystery	p. 82
"Deeper Immersion in Existence"	p. 95
The Spiritual Battle	p. 112
The Battlefield	p. 114
The Spirit of Christianity	p. 122
Auguste Comte and Christianity	p. 131
The Meaning of Comtian Atheism	p. 139
The Law of the Three States	p. 139
The Monotheistic Transition	p. 147
Beyond Atheism	p. 158
God Excluded and Replaced	p. 167
Christianity and Catholicism	p. 180
Antisocial Christianity	p. 180
Jesus and Saint Paul	p. 186
The Work of the Catholic Priesthood	p. 192
A Holy Alliance	p. 204
Positivist Transpositions	p. 215
The True Catholicism	p. 215
The Priesthood of the Scientists	p. 229
Spiritual Despotism	p. 238
Sociocracy	p. 248
Conclusion	p. 263
Dostoevsky as Prophet	p. 269
Comparison with Nietzsche	p. 277
Hostile Brothers	p. 277
The Torment of God	p. 285
In the Presence of Jesus	p. 297
The Bankruptcy of Atheism	p. 309
The Man-God	p. 310
The Tower of Babel	p. 320
The Palace of Glass	p. 334
Experience of Eternity	p. 347
Ambiguous Experiences	p. 348
Dualisms and Symbols	p. 365
The New Birth	p. 379
Conclusion	p. 393
Mystical Confrontations	p. 395
The Search for a New Man	p. 399
Nietzsche as Mystic	p. 469
Index	p. 511
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