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His previous books include The Last Years of Saint Therese (2013) and Therese of Lisieux (2006). Nevin is Professor Emeritus at John Carroll University, USA, and a Life Member of Clare Hall at Cambridge University, UK. Demonstrating that a responsible understanding of Protestantism as a historical movement needs to engage with its inherent flaws, this is a text that will engage scholars of philosophy, theology, and religious studies alike. Using Nietzsche as a critical guide to the evolution of Protestant thinking, each is shown to violate, warp, or ignore gospel injunctions, and otherwise pose hazards to the primacy of Christian ethics. In this book, Nietzsche is put into conversation with the initiatives of several powerful thinking writers: Luther, Boehme, Leibniz, and Lessing. 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. Nietzsche was famously an atheist, despite coming from a strongly Protestant family. VIII Nietzsche seduced by Lessing.Ĭonclusion: Nietzsche facing Christianity. IV The Reimarus controversy and Hauptpastor Goeze (1778). III Adornments for the half-religious: “The Free Thinker” (1749) and “Vindications” (1754). IX Nietzsche (and Goethe) on Leibniz.Ĥ The prodigality of reason: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. VIII Leibniz and Bayle on Christian mystery. VII Pierre Bayle as witness for the prosecution of God and Leibniz.

VI Of damnation and extra-terrestrial piety.

VI Nietzsche, Boehme, and the metaphysics of suffering.ģ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz presumes to scan God. V Boehme in and out of the Lutherans’ dock. IV Boehme’s ontotheology: from nothing to nothing. III God the good son, God the evil father. II The legacy of Theophrastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus. VIII The Finnish re-make: putting a best face onto Luther.Ģ The evil in God: Jacob Boehme finds the cosmos. IV Grace, the slavish will, impossible love. III What the Theologia Deutsch told Luther about love. Introduction: Nietzsche, companion and commentator.

Therese of Lisieux C by Thomas R. Nevin