AuthorErnst Bloch1885–1977Atheism in Christianity: The Religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom is a 1968 book by the German Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch. It proposes a third way beyond the either/or debate between Christianity and atheism. According to Gareth Jenkins of Socialist Review, Bloch argues that Christianity contains liberatory, 'atheist' elements with which socialists should make common cause.
The book grew out of the Christian-Marxist intellectual dialogue organized by Milan Machovec and others in 1960s Communist Czechoslovakia. Bloch's ideas echoed in Machovec's 1969 book Jesus for Modern Man, published in German in 1972 as Jesus für Atheisten.
The book was welcomed by some critics; Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian called it exhilarating to read.
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