Post-theism
Post-theismis the belief that the belief in agodbelongs to a previous stage of human development and, thus, a division oftheismvs.atheismis obsolete. It is a variant ofnontheism.The term appears inliberal Christianityandpost-Christianity.
Origin
[edit]Frank Hugh Fosterin a 1918 lecture announced that modern culture had arrived at a "post-theistic stage" in which humanity has taken possession of the powers of agency and creativity that had formerly been projected upon God.[1]
Denys Turnerargues thatKarl Marxdid not choose atheism over theism but rejected the binaryFeuerbachianchoice inThe Essence of Christianityaltogether, a position which by being post-theistic is at the same time necessarilypost-atheistic.[2]At one point, Marx argued "there should be less trifling with the label 'atheism'", as he insisted "religion in itself is without content, it owes its being not to heaven but to the earth, and with the abolition of distorted reality, of which it is the theory, it will collapse of itself."[3]
Related ideas includeFriedrich Nietzsche's pronouncement that "God is dead"and thetranstheismofPaul TillichorPema Chödrön.
Notable post-theists
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See also
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Notes and references
[edit]- ^Gary J. Dorrien,The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900-1950(2003),ISBN978-0-664-22355-7,p. 177f.
- ^D. Turner, "Religion: Illusions and liberation", in: Terrell Carver (ed),The Cambridge Companion to Marx(1991),ISBN978-0-521-36694-6,p. 337.
- ^Karl Marx,Letter from Marx to Arnold Ruge In Dresden(1842)
Sources
[edit]- H. J. Adriannse, "After Theism" in: H. A. Krop, Arie L. Molendijk, Hent de Vries (eds.)Post-Theism: Reframing the Judeo-Christian TraditionArchived2008-04-22 at theWayback Machine(2000),ISBN978-90-429-0853-6.
- Christoph Schwöbel,"After Post-Theism" in: S. Andersen (ed. )Traditional Theism and its Modern Alternatives(1994), 161–196.
- Vincent Brümmer, "The Enlightenment Project and the Human Image of God" in: Hans-Georg Ziebertz (ed.),The Human Image of God,BRILL, 2001, 55–72.
External links
[edit]- Post-colonialism and Post-theismby Christopher Bradley (2007)
- Entry on "Atheism" at Marxists Internet Archive: Encyclopedia of Marxism
- Post-Atheism: from Apophatic Theology to "Minimal Religion"byMikhail EpsteinIn the book: Russian Postmodernism:New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture(with Alexander Genis and Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, in the seriesStudies in Slavic Literature, Culture, and Society,vol. 3). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999, 528 pp.345-393.
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