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Life after Death after Marx 🔍
Simon Hewitt Cambridge University Press, Elements in Christian Doctrine, 2025
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Karl Marx’s criticism of religion, as applied to afterlife belief, needs to be taken seriously by Christian theologians. After outlining that belief, the author examines a picture of heaven implicit in much Christian belief and practice which is susceptible to that critique. He sets out an alternative eschatology, centred on the Kingdom of God and the resurrection of the body, which is somewhat less susceptible. He then explores whether a doctrine of the intermediate state can be sustained in the light of Marx’s criticisms. He goes on to examine the politics of remembrance in the light of Marxist criticism, and to ask whether Christianity can help compensate for the tragic character of Marxism. A constant theme is that Christian theology should exist in tension with Marx’s criticisms, never assuming that it has overcome them completely.
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Life after Death after Marx
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Karl Marx against Religion
1.2 Christian Theology and Marx
1.3 On Hell
2 Marx, the Kingdom, and the Resurrection
2.1 Prophecy
2.2 The Problems of Heaven
2.3 Kingdom and Resurrection
3 After Death and before the Kingdom
3.1 The Dead Really Are Dead
3.2 A Non-dualistic Soul
3.3 All in the Light of the Kingdom
3.4 Back to Marx’s Critique
4 The Politics of Remembrance
4.1 Radical Mourning
4.2 Remembering in the Light of Politics
4.3 The Theological Consequences of a Politics of Remembrance
5 Could It Be Worth It?
5.1 What Can Christianity Say?
5.2 But Is Christianity Tragic?
6 Conclusion
References
Acknowledgements
date open sourced
2025-03-21
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