[lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists?

[Alan Rudy]

Its funny, when I read Durkheim on religion I thought it was warmed over
Feuerbach... who, as far as I could find, is never cited by Durkheim.
I'll look for Berger and Harrington's books.  Thanks.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:41 AM, farmelantj at juno.com
<farmelantj at juno.com>wrote:


>
>
> Spong's books are largely popularizations
> of the earlier work of people like
> Paul Tillich and Rudolf Bultmann,
> as he readily admits.  And Tillich's
> philosophizing about God is to a
> large extent, warmed over Feuerbach, anyway.
>


> In fact both Michael Harrington in
> his book, *The Politics at God's
> Funeral* and Peter Berger in book,
> *The Sacred Canopy*, stressed the
> influence that Feuerbach had on many
> twentieth century theologians, from
> Karl Barth to Tillich, to the
> Death-of-God theologians of the
> 1960s.
>
> Jim Farmelant
>