Atheism in Christianity
Subtitle: the religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom
By: Ernst Bloch ; translated by J. T. Swann
Publisher: Herder and Herder
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 273
Copyright date: 1972
Subjects: Christianity and atheism.
Table of contents: title: Round the corner.; title: 1. Against the goad; title: 2. A glance at slave-talk; title: Scandal and folly.; title: 3. No longer so submissive; title: 4. From sighing to murmuring; title: 5. Renunciation and the semi-disillusioned; title: 6. The strange ubiquity of the Bible and its language; title: 7. Whose Bible?; title: Prometheus a myth too.; title: 8. From murmuring to contention; title: 9. "The Lord has said that He would dwell in thick darkness"; title: 10. Contrary principles in the Bible : creation and apocalypse; title: 11. Discernment of myths; title: 12. Marxism and religion; title: 13. Bible criticism as detective work; title: Exodus in the concept of Yahweh.; title: 14. An unheard-of saying of Jesus' : departure-in-full; title: 15. Early traces of the break-away : first thoughts about the serpent; title: 16. Breakthrough in the theocratic concept of Yahweh : first thoughts about the Exodus-light (Ex. 13:21); title: 17. Nazirites and prophets : Yahweh's exodus into universal moral providence; pre-vision; title: 18. The bounds of patience; title: Aut Caesar aut Christus?; title: 19. How restless men are; title: 20. Mildness and the "light of his fury" (William Blake); title: 21. Jesus' exodus into Yahweh; title: 22. Christ's secret name is Son of Man, not Son of God; the "mystery of the kingdom"; title: 23. The diminishing greatness of the Son of Man : the "smallness" of the kingdom; title: 24. The title "Son of Man" is eschatological, the later title "Kyrios-Christos" wholly cultic; title: 25. The total Christocentricity of John 17, the "key to the Gospel"; title: 26. Paul's so-called patience of the cross : his appeal to resurrection and life; title: 27. Resurrection, ascension, and parousia : wish-mysterium in spite of sacrificial death; title: 28. Second thoughts about the serpent : the Ophites; title: 29. Second thoughts about the exodus-light : Marcion's gospel of an alien god without this world; title: Aut logos aut cosmos?; title: 30. The call before the door; title: 31. Orpheus; title: 32. Exodus and cosmos in the Stoics and in Gnosticism; title: 33. Astral-myth in the Bible; title: 34. Logos-myth again : man and spirit, Feuerbach, Christian mysticism; title: 35. Further consequences of the logos-myth : Pentecost : veni Creator Spiritus, not nature but kingdom; title: 36. This-worldliness in the astral-myth; title: 37. The strange, strictly non-parallel breakthrough of both man-centered and materialistic systems into the "divine transcendence," which they replace; title: Sources of life-force.; title: 38. The only safe handhold : openness; title: 39. True enlightenment is neither trivial nor shallow; title: 40. Enlightenment and atheism do not overthrow the "satanic" with the God-hypostasis; title: 41. Moral, and final, sources of life-force; title: 42. Sources of possible death-force : departure; title: 43. Hunger, "something in a dream," "God of hope," thing-for-us; title: 44. Conclusion : Marx and the end of alienation