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Essence of Christianity
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Essence of Christianity Paper back - 1989

by LUDWIG FEUERBACH

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Prometheus Books, October 1989. Paper Back. New.
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  • Title Essence of Christianity
  • Author LUDWIG FEUERBACH
  • Binding Paper Back
  • Edition Published 1989
  • Condition New
  • Pages 364
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date October 1989
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 20070817118887
  • ISBN 9780879755591 / 0879755598
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89062324
  • Dewey Decimal Code 230

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In this, one of the most influential works of the post-Hegelian era, Feuerbach captures the synthesis that emerges from the dialectical process of a transcending Godhead and the rational and material world.In understanding the true nature of what it means to be fully human, Feuerbach contends that we come face to face with the essence of Christian theology: human beings investing ordinary concepts with divine meaning and significance. The true danger to humanity occurs when theology is given the force of dogma and doctrine. Losing sight of its anthropological underpinnings and dependence upon or emergence from human nature, it then acquires an existence separate from that of humankind.Feuerbach leaves nothing untouched: miracles, the Trinity, Creation, prayer, resurrection, immortality, faith and much more.This classic humanist analysis of Christianity was translated into English by renowned novelist George Eliot.

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RELIGION has its basis in the essential difference between man and the brute-the brutes have no religion.

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About the author

Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) was a highly respected nineteenth-century philosopher who focused on the study of post-Hegelian philosophy, idealism, naturalism, materialism, and positivism. Feuerbach's book, The Essence of Christianity, is noted as an influential atheist text, and helped inspire the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Feuerbach was educated at the University of Berlin.