The Essence of Christianity

Description of the book

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 & the rational & material world. In understanding the true nature of what it means to be fully human, he contends that we come face to face with the essence of Xian theology: human beings investing ordinary concepts with divine meaning & significance. The true danger to humanity occurs when theology is given the force of dogma & doctrine. Losing sight of its anthropological underpinnings & dependence upon or emergence from human nature, it then acquires an existence separate from that of humankind. He leaves nothing untouched: miracles, the Trinity, Creation, prayer, resurrection, immortality, faith & much more.

The essential nature of man

The essence of religion considered generally

God as a being of the understanding

God as a moral being or law

The mystery of the incarnation; or, God as love, as a being of the heart

The mystery of the suffering God

The mystery of the Trinity & the mother of God

The mystery of the Logos & divine image

The mystery of the cosmogonical principle in God

The mystery of mysticism, or of nature in God

The mystery of providence & creation out of nothing

The significance of the creation in Judaism