Heilung durch Fragen: Vom Nutzen der traditionellen Religionskritik für die gegenwärtige Religiosität

David Bouma

doi:10.25167/sth.957

Published: 2019-07-24

Vol. 39 No. 1 (2019)

Therapy by questioning

David Bouma

Studia Teologiczno-Historyczne Śląska Opolskiego

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.25167/sth.957

About the continual usefulness of the criticism of religion

Abstract

The article aims to point out the fact that classical criticism of religion can be of benefit to current believers. We have picked some thoughts critical to religion made by L. Feuerbach, K. Marx and F. Nietzsche and related them to certain phenomena of religious presence. Although we do not sympathize with the mentioned authors’ general condemnation of religion, we assume that a range of their views may be useful for identifying problematic, controversial or pathological phenomena in today’s religious scene. Relating classical criticism of religion to certain segments of religious contemporaneousness may be the benefit of this text.

Keywords:

criticism of religion, religious contemporaneousness, Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, interreligious dialogue

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Bouma, D. (2019). Therapy by questioning: About the continual usefulness of the criticism of religion. Studia Teologiczno-Historyczne Śląska Opolskiego, 39(1), 39–48. https://doi.org/10.25167/sth.957

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