Eschatology and utopia: Ernst Bloch’s philosophy of religion
Abstract
The article is a study of Ernst Bloch’s philosophy of religion, based on the exposition of several of his key concepts: 1. The idea of God, stripped of its metaphysical content and re-inscribed within the immanence of religious sentiment. 2. The Blochian identification of a messianic principle in all religions, consisting of a progressive awareness of human dignity. 3. A rediscovery of the eschatological tradition in Christianity, which was predominant in the early Christian faith and later went underground as the Hellenization of Christianity advanced. Bloch’s use of terms such as “heretic,” as well as his distinction between natural religion and higher religions, is problematised.
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