Nietzsche And Theology

Author : David Deane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351914598

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Theology has always viewed Nietzschean thought with a sideways glance, never quite sure what to make of it. Where serious engagement has occurred it has tended to either reject such thought outright or to accept it to such an extent that it loses its identity as Christian theology. This book outlines a model for incorporating Nietzschean thought within the structures of a wholly traditional Christological anthropology. What is perhaps even more significant is what shows up in Christological anthropology under this Nietzschean light. Using Nietzschean concepts a whole new lexicon is opened up for understanding and articulating traditional accounts of sin and fallenness, accounts which modern theology has often lacked the categories to articulate. The book culminates in a doctrine of reconciliation which is given urgency and coherence precisely through such reinvigoration of traditional accounts using Nietzschean thought.

Author : Julian Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107320871

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Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion by Julian Young Pdf

In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This is commonly thought to be a view which did not survive the termination of Nietzsche's early Wagnerianism, but Julian Young argues, on the basis of an examination of all of Nietzsche's published works, that his religious communitarianism in fact persists through all his writings. What follows, it is argued, is that the mature Nietzsche is neither an 'atheist', an 'individualist', nor an 'immoralist': he is a German philosopher belonging to a German tradition of conservative communitarianism - though to claim him as a proto-Nazi is radically mistaken. This important reassessment will be of interest to all Nietzsche scholars and to a wide range of readers in German philosophy.

Author : Craig Hovey
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567031525

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A look at how Nietzsche's most generative and provocative ideas are also deeply theological and continue to have relevance in teaching Christians how to be Christians in the world today.

Author : David Ohana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429781612

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Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology by David Ohana Pdf

Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology is the first book to explore the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche’s work on the formation of Jewish political theology during the first half of the twentieth century. It maps the many ways in which early Jewish thinkers grappled with Nietzsche’s powerful ideas about politics, morality, and religion in the process of forging a new and modern Jewish culture. The book explores the stories of some of the most important Jewish thinkers who utilized Nietzsche’s writings in crafting the intellectual foundations of Jewish modern political theology. These figures’ political convictions ranged from orthodox conservatism to pacifist anarchism, and their attitude towards Nietzsche’s ideas varied from enthusiastic embrace to ambivalence and outright rejection. By bringing these diverse figures together, the book makes a convincing argument about Nietzsche’s importance for key figures of early Zionism and modern Jewish political thought. The present study offers a new interpretation of a particular theological position which is called "heretical religiosity." Only with modernity and, paradoxically, with rapid secularization, did one find "heretical religiosity" at full strength. Nietzsche enabled intellectual Jews to transform the foundation of their political existence. It provides a new perspective on the adaptation of Nietzsche’s philosophy in the age of Jewish national politics, and at the same time is a case study in the intellectual history of the modern Jewry. This new reading on Nietzsche’s work is a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in philosophy, Jewish history and political theology.

Author : Stephen N. Williams
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114203396

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The Shadow of the Antichrist by Stephen N. Williams Pdf

"In The Shadow of the Antichrist, Williams fills a significant gap in the scholarly literature by examining Nietzsche's critique of Christianity and his continuing influence. Williams begins with a basic question - What was it about Christianity that caused Nietzsche's agitation? He aims to answer that question not with a systematic survey of Nietzsche's thought but rather through a careful examination of themes that emerge in his ruminations on religion."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Weaver Santaniello
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791489901

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Nietzsche and the Gods by Weaver Santaniello Pdf

"I have slain all gods—for the sake of morality!" — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Although often regarded as an atheist who did not take religion seriously, Nietzsche in fact thought deeply about the gods and how they functioned in the human psyche. The son of a Lutheran pastor who dropped theology in college after only one semester, Nietzsche was a profound religious thinker who devoted much of his writing to reevaluating the concept of god that prevailed in nineteenth-century Germany. As this volume demonstrates, Nietzsche sharply discerned between the positive and negative aspects of various gods, including the Christian God, the Jewish God (Yahweh), the Greek gods (especially Apollo and Dionysus), and the Buddha. The essays further touch upon Nietzsche's relationship to prominent religious thinkers of his time, as well as his influence on later religious thinkers, such as Martin Buber and Paul Tillich. Wide-ranging and diverse, Nietzsche and the Gods will be indispensable to our continuing understanding of Nietzsche's thought and to the broader study of philosophy and religion.

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christian philosophy
ISBN : 9780823221301

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Overcoming Onto-theology by Merold Westphal Pdf

Westphal here brings together his discussions over the last decade of how Christianity can and should engage and appropriate post-modernism..it's easily the best contribution to the discussion that I know of.-Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486836195

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The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

One of philosophy's most accessible and easily understood works, this denunciation of Christianity and organized religion consists of 62 brief chapters, each an aphorism that advances the philosopher's argument.

Author : Paul Bishop
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031422720

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Discourses of Philology and Theology in Nietzsche by Paul Bishop Pdf

This study proposes to examine the tension in Nietzsche’s works between two competing discourses, i.e., the discourse of theology and the discourse of philology. It argues that, in order to understand Nietzsche’s complicated standpoint and the aim of his Kulturkritik, we have to appreciate how he operates with two different discourses, one indexed to belief, faith, liturgy (i.e., the discourse of theology) and another indexed to analytical reason, sceptical investigation, and logical argumentation, as well as historical context and linguistic precision (i.e., the discourse of philology). Its core thesis is that, in the end, Nietzsche can no longer believe, because he thinks he has uncovered a fraudulent production of meaning in the texts, in a way that is comparable with his insight into the production of morality in On the Genealogy of Morals (1887).

Author : Tim Murphy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791450872

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Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion by Tim Murphy Pdf

Presents a radically anti-foundationalist reading of Nietzsche's philosophy of religion.

Author : Russell Re Manning,Carlotta Santini
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110612172

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Nietzsche's Gods by Russell Re Manning,Carlotta Santini Pdf

The place (or absence) of God in Nietzsche’s thought remains central and controversial. Nietzsche’s proclamation of 'the death of God' is one of the most famous (and parodied) slogans in modern philosophy, seeming to encapsulate the nineteenth-century loss of religious faith in the affirmation that God has "turned out to be our oldest lie" and yet the nature of Nietzsche’s own ‘theology’ is far from clear. This volume engages with Nietzsche’s arguments about God, theology, and religion. The volume extends the discussion to an engagement of Nietzsche with alternative models of God, with ancient Greek religions, and with discussions of diversity (race, class, gender, sex) in dis/conjunction with religion. The chapters examine Nietzsche’s genealogy of religion and his claims about the place of God and theology in the history of Western thought ("that faith of the Christians, which was also Plato’s faith"), as well as his engagements with alternative conceptions of God. The volume also examines the historical and contemporary reception of Nietzsche’s arguments about God by religious and non-religious thinkers, asking to what extent Nietzsche’s philosophy of God speaks to the challenges of today's globalized philosophy and religion.

Author : Bruce Ellis Benson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253003577

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Pious Nietzsche by Bruce Ellis Benson Pdf

Bruce Ellis Benson puts forward the surprising idea that Nietzsche was never a godless nihilist, but was instead deeply religious. But how does Nietzsche affirm life and faith in the midst of decadence and decay? Benson looks carefully at Nietzsche's life history and views of three decadents, Socrates, Wagner, and Paul, to come to grips with his pietistic turn. Key to this understanding is Benson's interpretation of the powerful effect that Nietzsche thinks music has on the human spirit. Benson claims that Nietzsche's improvisations at the piano were emblematic of the Dionysian or frenzied, ecstatic state he sought, but was ultimately unable to achieve, before he descended into madness. For its insights into questions of faith, decadence, and transcendence, this book is an important contribution to Nietzsche studies, philosophy, and religion.

Author : Abed Azzam
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231538978

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Nietzsche Versus Paul by Abed Azzam Pdf

Abed Azzam offers a fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's engagement with the work of Paul the Apostle, reorienting the relationship between the two thinkers while embedding modern philosophy within early Christian theology. Paying careful attention to Nietzsche's dialectics, Azzam situates the philosopher's thought within the history of Christianity, specifically the Pauline dialectics of law and faith, and reveals how atheism is constructed in relation to Christianity. Countering Heidegger's characterization of Nietzsche as an anti-Platonist, Azzam brings the philosopher closer to Paul through a radical rereading of his entire corpus against Christianity. This approach builds a compelling new history of the West resting on a logic of sublimation, from ancient Greece and early Judaism to the death of God. Azzam discovers in Nietzsche's philosophy a solid, tangible Pauline structure and virtual, fragile Greek content, positioning the thinker as a forerunner of the recent "return to Paul" led by Badiou, Agamben, i ek, and Breton. By changing the focus of modern philosophical inquiry from "Nietzsche and philosophy" to "Nietzsche and Christianity," Azzam initiates a major challenge to the primacy of Plato in the history of Western philosophy and narrow certainties regarding Nietzsche's relationship to Christian thought.

Author : Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161617911

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Psychology in Nietzsche's Criticism of Religion by Jan-Olav Henriksen Pdf

Author : Thomas R. Nevin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Protestantism
ISBN : 0367584905

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Nietzsche's Protestant Fathers by Thomas R. Nevin Pdf

This work provides a radical re-assessment of Protestantism by documenting and extrapolating Nietzsche's view that Christianity dies from the head down. In this book, Nietzsche is put into conversation with the initiatives of several powerful thinking writers; Luther, Boehme, Leibniz, and Lessing.