COURSE OUTLINE
The Cloud of Unknowing
Astronauts and Empty Space
God Beyond God
From Mysticism to Materialism
Death of God Theology
Faith and the Impossible
Embracing the Lack
Turning Pages Book Club presents…
Peter Rollins’ Atheism for Lent
Atheism for Lent is carefully curated to draw participants into a profound, destabilizing and life-altering event,
The Death of God
While the Apostle Paul was the first to assert The Death of God as a world-historical rupture with universal, emancipatory significance, it was Friedrich Nietzsche who most famously revived this insight for the modern world.
Like Paul, Nietzsche proclaimed that this torturous experience was ultimately a liberating one, and was something that each one of us - theist, atheist, agnostic and ignostic alike - must be courageous enough enter into and endure.
Paul, the Ambassador of Christ, and Nietzsche, the self-proclaimed Anti-Christ, both united in preaching the scandalous Good News of Deicide.
It is precisely this scandalous idea that the gatekeepers of confessional theology and modern atheism soundly reject: either God is real and cannot die, or isn’t and cannot die. For both, the notion of participating in God’s real death is nonsense.
In contrast, Atheism for Lent invites the intrepid pilgrim into a difficult journey that culminates at a little-known temple where theism and atheism are found unified. Brought together in an absurd and ancient symbol to be revealed at the end of the pilgrimage.