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THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY IBD

COSIMO CLASSICS
12 / 2008
9781605204437
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Sinopsis

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.