03552nam 2200517 450 991052379820332120230629231914.03-030-88431-73030884317(ebk)9783030884314(ebk)9783030884307(hardcover)3030884309(hardcover)(CKB)5490000000111363(MiAaPQ)EBC6796786(Au-PeEL)EBL6796786(OCoLC)1285165696(EXLCZ)99549000000011136320220724d2022 uy 0engurcz#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReflections on God and the death of God philosophy, spirituality, and religion /Richard WhiteCham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2022]©20221 online resource (163 pages)3-030-88430-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Death of God theologyReligionPhilosophySpiritualityDeath of God theology.ReligionPhilosophy.Spirituality.230White Richard23632MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910523798203321Reflections on God and the Death of God2591322UNINA