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Partages de la Perspective

Partages de la Perspective Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/483/1301584/483demeyer.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Beliefs and means of persuasion coexist in critical ways. If anticlericalism, anxiety over one’s salvation, and despair over the injustice of the world led one to build an “atheistic” worldview, then Nietzsche’s “God is dead” should have been pro - claimed long before. Religious anger and anxiety were always there. What was new? Printing and the rapid increase in the number of publishers, the exponential growth of primary and secondary education, and the rising tide of laymen among those educated, all created a dramatically more secular reading public. Debates that Christian theologians dealt with intra muros were now extramural. Travel lit - erature, wildly popular, introduced new European readers not only to function - ing non- Christian cultures but also to cultures that some missionaries themselves described as atheistic (thereby creating the bestsellers of missionary literature). Ryrie trumpets at the outset a desire to account for a culture without God only to conclude with an “atheism” indistinguishable from an anti- Christian crit- ical deism or various heterodox theisms. Atheism in its fullest sense — a disbelief in God— is not simply a variety of heresy, but a belief http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Partages de la Perspective

De Meyer, Thibault
Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (3) – Aug 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/483/1301584/483demeyer.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Beliefs and means of persuasion coexist in critical ways. If anticlericalism, anxiety over one’s salvation, and despair over the injustice of the world led one to build an “atheistic” worldview, then Nietzsche’s “God is dead” should have been pro - claimed long before. Religious anger and anxiety were always there. What was new? Printing and the rapid increase in the number of publishers, the exponential growth of primary and secondary education, and the rising tide of laymen among those educated, all created a dramatically more secular reading public. Debates that Christian theologians dealt with intra muros were now extramural. Travel lit - erature, wildly popular, introduced new European readers not only to function - ing non- Christian cultures but also to cultures that some missionaries themselves described as atheistic (thereby creating the bestsellers of missionary literature). Ryrie trumpets at the outset a desire to account for a culture without God only to conclude with an “atheism” indistinguishable from an anti- Christian crit- ical deism or various heterodox theisms. Atheism in its fullest sense — a disbelief in God— is not simply a variety of heresy, but a belief

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