Reflections on God and the death of God : philosophy, spirituality, and religion / / Richard White

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910523798203321
• Autore: White Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 3-030-88431-7; 3030884317; 9783030884314; 9783030884307; 3030884309
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (163 pages)
• Disciplina: 230
• Soggetti: Death of God theology; Religion - Philosophy; Spirituality
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Scope of This Book -- Autobiographical Background -- Chapter 2: Belief in God -- What Is God? -- What Is Belief? -- Problems with Religion and God -- Spirituality and Religion -- Chapter 3: The Death of God -- The Death of God: A Standard View -- Rethinking the Death of God -- Hegel and Dostoevsky on the Death of God -- The Sacrifice of God -- Chapter 4: Seeking God -- Pascal and the Personal Relationship with God -- Rudolf Otto on God as the "Wholly Other" -- Martin Buber on God as the Eternal Thou -- Levinas on God and the Ethical Commandment -- Chapter 5: The Origin and the Future of God -- From Polytheism to Monotheism -- Religion and the Power of Reason -- The Power of Myth and the Goal of Monotheism -- Freud on the Truth of Monotheism -- Chapter 6: Spirituality, Religion, and God -- Monotheism and Nature -- Feelings, Beliefs, and Practices -- Spirituality in a Post-Secular Age -- Spiritual Philosophers -- Chapter 7: God After the Death of God -- God as the Ideal -- God as Otherness ; -- Spirituality and God -- Afterword -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: What is God? What does it mean to believe in God? What happens to God after the death of God? This book examines "the death of God" from a philosophical standpoint. It focuses on monotheism, polytheism, and nature, and it discusses the renewed importance of spirituality-and the "spiritual but not religious"-in response to the death of God. In recent years, religious belief has been in decline, but secularism cannot satisfy our spiritual needs. We are now living in a "post-secular" age in which the relationship between philosophy, spirituality, and religion must be re-examined. As an exploratory essay, this book engages the reader at a profound level, and considers a variety of modern thinkers, including Nietzsche, Hegel, Freud, Levinas, Assmann, and Buber. It offers a sustained meditation on the origin of God, the death of God, and the future of "God" as a guiding ideal.