Nietzsche’s Critique of Religion: A Liberationist Perspective
Engaging Nietzsche’s genealogy of religion from a liberationist perspective, the author argues that despite Nietzsche’s valuable insights on theology’s potential for limiting human freedom, a Christian theological anthropology is preferable to Nietzsche’s naturalistic view of humanity. The author of...
| Published in: | Theological studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2014
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Theological studies
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| Further subjects: | B
theories of race
B genealogy of religion B Liberation Theology B nineteenth-century biologism B Theological Anthropology B Nietzsche studies |
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| Summary: | Engaging Nietzsche’s genealogy of religion from a liberationist perspective, the author argues that despite Nietzsche’s valuable insights on theology’s potential for limiting human freedom, a Christian theological anthropology is preferable to Nietzsche’s naturalistic view of humanity. The author offers a challenge to Nietzsche scholarship by demonstrating how Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity as a morality of ressentiment is grounded in 19th-century theories of racial inequality that equate religious belief with racial identity, and are opposed to the political liberation of all people. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-1304 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040563914548657 |