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Stephen Williams, professor of systematic theology at Union Theological College in Belfast, Northern Ireland, offers his own critique of Nietzsche's attack on Christianity with this well-documented, intellectually serious, but ultimately frustrating work.
Jun 27, 2016 · The influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1990) had his views on religion and Christianity, and was arguably the most abrupt and abrasive atheistic thinkers of his time.
Nietzsche's objections to Christianity stem from his criticism of morality. This criticism of morality is offered from the standpoint of one who completely rejects the values uncritically accepted by Christian man. According to Nietzsche, values are created, not discovered, and the generation of value is the prerogative of the philosopher.
The existence of undesirable states of affairs notoriously confronts Christian theism with a particularly acute problem. ‘Evil’ constitutes evidence against the existence of God, evidence that seems to many decisively to outweigh the available evidence for the existence of God.
This paper seeks to challenge the interpretive orthodoxy that Nietzsche was unqualifiedly hostile to Christianity. Nietzsche’s opposition to Christianity is well-attested. He described Christianity as ‘the greatest misfortune of mankind.’.
This chapter examines Friedrich Nietzsche's inherent logic or logos (“internalizing movement”), which he lays bare within the history of Christianity. It argues that Nietzsche's genealogical argument about the history of Western thought returns to the “beginnings” in order to show how the logos of Christianity turns against itself.
Jan 1, 2023 · In this revolt Nietzsche makes no bones about being (mostly) on the side of the strong, and his own disdain over Christianity’s long and once upon a time seemingly eternal victory flows from this political and aesthetic conviction.
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