Nietzsche's Protestant Fathers: A Study in Prodigal Christianity

ISBN-13: 9781138391208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 282 str.

Thomas R. Nevin

Opis

This work provides a radical re-assessment of Protestantism by documenting and extrapolating Nietzsche’s view that Christianity dies from the head down. In this book, Nietzsche is put into conversation with the initiatives of several powerful thinking writers; Luther, Boehme, Leibniz, and Lessing.

Recenzje

"Nietzsche’s Protestant Fathers offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and works of some of the thinkers who preceded Nietzsche"....."Nevin presents a succinct and well-articulated analysis of the life and work of Luther, Boehme, Leibniz, and Lessing."
Michael Laminack, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology

Spis treści

Introduction: Nietzsche, Companion and Commentator  1 Martin Luther Denies Love to God  2 The Evil in God: Jacob Boehme Finds the Cosmos  3 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Presumes to Scan God  4 The Prodigality of Reason: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing;  Conclusion: Nietzsche Facing Christianity

O autorze

Thomas R. Nevin is Professor Emeritus at John Carroll University, USA, and a Life Member of Clare Hall at Cambridge University, UK. His previous books include The Last Years of Saint Therese (2013) and Therese of Lisieux (2006).