1st Edition
Nietzsche's Protestant Fathers A Study in Prodigal Christianity
By Thomas R. Nevin
Copyright 2019
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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Nietzsche was famously an atheist, despite coming from a strongly Protestant family. This heritage influenced much of his thought, but was it in fact the very thing that led him to his atheism? This work provides a radical re-assessment of Protestantism by documenting and extrapolating Nietzsche’s view that Christianity dies from the head down. That is, through Protestantism’s inherent anarchy.... Read more
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
Biography
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).
"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
