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Author NEVIN, THOMAS R

Title NIETZSCHE'S PROTESTANT FATHERS : a study in prodigal christianity
Published [Place of publication not identified] ROUTLEDGE, 2018

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Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Nietzsche, companion and commentator; 1 Martin Luther denies love to God; I Backgrounds and foregrounds; II Approaching Luther; III What the Theologia Deutsch told Luther about love; IV Grace, the slavish will, impossible love; V The earlier Luther on love; VI Loveless, Luther faces Islam; VII Luther on true and false Jews; VIII The Finnish re-make: putting a best face onto Luther; IX Nietzsche on Luther; 2 The evil in God: Jacob Boehme finds the cosmos; I Sebastian Franck shows Boehme the way
II The legacy of Theophrastus von Hohenheim, known as ParacelsusIII God the good son, God the evil father; IV Boehme's ontotheology: from nothing to nothing; V Boehme in and out of the Lutherans' dock; VI Nietzsche, Boehme, and the metaphysics of suffering; 3 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz presumes to scan God; I Leibniz thinking for his dukes; II Pre-establishing harmony; III Working for Christian concord; IV Toward the theodicy; V Monads, briefly; VI Of damnation and extra-terrestrial piety; VII Pierre Bayle as witness for the prosecution of God and Leibniz
VIII Leibniz and Bayle on Christian mysteryIX Nietzsche (and Goethe) on Leibniz; 4 The prodigality of reason: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; I What was enlightenment?; II An assassin of God?; III Adornments for the half-religious: "The Free Thinker" (1749) and "Vindications" (1754); IV The Reimarus controversy and Hauptpastor Goeze (1778); V Nathan der Weise (1779); VI Lessing's Jesus, Leibniz's optimism; VII Educating humanity with Spinoza; VIII Nietzsche seduced by Lessing; Conclusion: Nietzsche facing Christianity; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
SUBJECT Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 fast
Subject Protestantism -- History.
Protestantism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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