{"product_id":"the-essence-of-christianity-paperback-9781108040310","title":"The Essence of Christianity (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108040310","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Essence of Christianity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeuerbach's critique of religion, translated from German in 1854 by one of Britain's most famous novelists.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLudwig Feuerbach (Author), Marian Evans [George Eliot] (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108040310, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 December 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e366 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.35 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLudwig Feuerbach (1804–72), the German philosopher and a founding member of the Young Hegelians, a group of radical thinkers influenced by G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831), was an outspoken critic of religion, and the 1841 publication of this work established his reputation. In the first part of the book he examines what he calls the 'anthropological essence' of religion, and in the second he looks at its 'false or theological essence', arguing that the idea of God is a manifestation of human consciousness. These ideas provoked strong reactions in Germany, and soon other European intellectuals wanted to read Feuerbach's book. The 1843 second edition was translated by Marian Evans (1819–80) - who would become better known by her pen name of George Eliot - and published in Britain in 1854. Evans was influenced by Feuerbach's work, and many of his humanist ideas about religion are reflected in her novels.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface to the second edition\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The True or Anthropological Essence of Religion: 2. God as a being of the understanding\u003cbr\u003e 3. God as a moral being, or law\u003cbr\u003e 4. The mystery of the incarnation\u003cbr\u003e or, God as love, as a being of the heart\u003cbr\u003e 5. The mystery of the suffering God\u003cbr\u003e 6. The mystery of the Trinity and the Mother of God\u003cbr\u003e 7. The mystery of the logos and divine image\u003cbr\u003e 8. The mystery of the cosmogonical principle in God\u003cbr\u003e 9. The mystery of mysticism, or nature in God\u003cbr\u003e 10. The mystery of providence and creation out of nothing\u003cbr\u003e 11. The significance of the creation in Judaism\u003cbr\u003e 12. The omnipotence of feeling, or the mystery of prayer\u003cbr\u003e 13. The mystery of faith - the mystery of miracle\u003cbr\u003e 14. The mystery of the resurrection and of the miraculous conception\u003cbr\u003e 15. The mystery of the Christian Christ, or the personal God\u003cbr\u003e 16. The distinction between Christianity and heathenism\u003cbr\u003e 17. The significance of voluntary celibacy and monachism\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Christian heaven, or personal immortality\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The False or Theological Essence of Religion: 19. The essential stand-point of religion\u003cbr\u003e 20. The contradiction in the existence of God\u003cbr\u003e 21. The contradiction in the revelation of God\u003cbr\u003e 22. The contradiction in the nature of God in general\u003cbr\u003e 23. The contradiction in the speculative doctrine of God\u003cbr\u003e 24. The contradiction in the Trinity\u003cbr\u003e 25. The contradiction in the sacraments\u003cbr\u003e 26. The contradiction of faith and love\u003cbr\u003e 27. Concluding application\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: 1. The religious emotions purely human\u003cbr\u003e 2. God is feeling released from limits\u003cbr\u003e 3. God is the highest feeling of self\u003cbr\u003e 4. Distinction between the pantheistic and personal God\u003cbr\u003e 5. Nature without interest for Christians\u003cbr\u003e 6. In God man is his own object\u003cbr\u003e 7. Christianity the religion of suffering\u003cbr\u003e 8. Mystery of the Trinity\u003cbr\u003e 9. Creation out of nothing\u003cbr\u003e 10. Egoism of the Israelitish religion\u003cbr\u003e 11. The idea of providence\u003cbr\u003e 12. Contradiction of faith and reason\u003cbr\u003e 13. The resurrection of Christ\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Christian a supermundane being\u003cbr\u003e 15. The celibate and monachism\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Christian heaven\u003cbr\u003e 17. What faith denies on earth it affirms in heaven\u003cbr\u003e 18. Contradictions in the sacraments\u003cbr\u003e 19. Contradiction of faith and love\u003cbr\u003e 20. Results of the principle of faith\u003cbr\u003e 21. Contradiction of the God-Man\u003cbr\u003e 22. 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