Atheism in Christianity: The Religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom () is a 1968 book by German Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch. The book offers a third way to the Christian/atheist either/or debate. Gareth Jenkins from Socialist Review says that Bloch "argues that there are liberatory, 'atheist' elements within Christianity with which socialists should make common cause."Gareth Jenkins, "Book Review", Socialist Review, September 2009, http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=10942
Context Bloch engaged with a Christian-Marxist intellectual dialogue group organized by Milan Machovec and others in 1960s Communist Czechoslovakia.Žďárský, Pavel (2011). Milan Machovec a jeho filosofická antropologie v 60. letech XX. století [Milan Machovec and His Philosophical Anthropology in the 1960s]. Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Education, Department of Civic Education and Philosophy. Dissertation, supervised by . His Atheism in Christianity echoed in Machovec's 1969 book Jesus for Modern Man (Ježíš pro moderního člověka), published in German in 1972 as Jesus für Atheisten.
Reception
Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian called the book "exhilarating to read".
See also Christian atheism
References
External links Illuminations: Ernst Bloch, Utopia and Ideology Critique By Douglas Kellner Ernst-Bloch-Zentrum Ernst Bloch Assoziation Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies, University of Sheffield