Humanism and the death of God : searching for the good after Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche

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Humanism and the death of God : searching for the good after Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche

Title remainder

searching for the good after Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche

Statement of responsibility

Ronald E. Osborn

Creator

• Osborn, Ronald E., 1975-

Author

• Osborn, Ronald E., 1975-

Subject

• Death of God theology
• Humanism
• Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Christianity
• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Secularization (Theology)
• Naturalism -- Religious aspects
• Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation

Language

eng

Summary

'Humanism and the Death of God' is a critical exploration of secular humanism and its discontents. Through close readings of three exemplary nineteenth-century philosophical naturalists or materialists, who perhaps more than anyone set the stage for our contemporary quandaries when it comes to questions of human nature and moral obligation, Ronald E. Osborn argues that 'the death of God' ultimately tends toward the death of liberal understandings of the human as well. Any fully persuasive defense of humanistic values - including the core humanistic concepts of inviolable dignity, rights, and equality attaching to each individual - requires an essentially religious vision of personhood. Osborn shows such a vision is found in an especially dramatic and historically consequential way in the scandalous particularity of the Christian narrative of God becoming a human. He does not attempt to provide logical proofs for the central claims of Christian humanism along the lines some philosophers might demand. Instead, this study demonstrates how philosophical naturalism or materialism, and secular humanisms and anti-humanisms, might be persuasively read from the perspective of a classically orthodox Christian faith

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

211/.6

Index

index present

LC call number

BL2747.6

LC item number

.O83 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography