Post-theism
Post-theism is a variant of nontheism that proposes to have not so much rejected theism as rendered it obsolete, that God belongs to a stage of human development now past. Within nontheism, post-theism can be contrasted with antitheism. The term appears in Christian liberal theology and Postchristianity.
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[edit] Overview
Frank Hugh Foster in a 1918 lecture announced that modern culture had arrived at a "post-theistic stage" in which humanity has taken possession of the powers of agency and creativity that had formerly been projected upon God.[1]
Denys Turner argues that Karl Marx did not choose atheism over theism, but rejected the binary "Feuerbachian" choice altogether, a position which by being post-theistic is at the same time necessarily post-atheistic.[2] Related ideas include Friedrich Nietzsche's pronouncement that "God is dead", and less pessimistically, the transtheism of Paul Tillich or Pema Chödrön.
The Hindu school of Samkhya posits that God was a necessary metaphysical assumption demanded by circumstances, but ultimately cannot be admitted to exist.
[edit] See also
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- Deconstruction-and-religion
- Humanism
- Neopaganism
- Postchristianity
- Postmodern Christianity
- Universalism
- Virtuous pagan
[edit] References
- ^ Gary J. Dorrien , The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900-1950 (2003), ISBN 978-0664223557, p. 177f.
- ^ D. Turner, "Religion: Illusions and liberation", in: Terrell Carver (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Marx (1991), ISBN 978-0521366946, p. 337.
- H. de Vries (Editor), H. a. Krop, Post-Theism: Reframing the Judeo-Christian Tradition (2000), ISBN 978-9042908536
[edit] External links
- Post-colonialism and Post-theism by Christopher Bradley (2007)
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