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- Woodcock, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, p. 99.
- PM, p. 452.
- PM, p. 461. Humanity must instead recognise God, not as man’s
reflection, but as “his antagonist. And this last consideration will suf-
fice to make us reject humanism also, as tending invincibly, by the
deification of humanity, to a religious restoration. The true remedy
for fanaticism [...] is to prove to humanity that God, in case there is
a God, is its enemy” (PM, pp. 467–8). - De la Justice dans la Révolution et dans L’Eglise, volume ii,
p. 253. Cited in de Lubac, The Un-marxian Socialist, p. 289. - This is not equivalent to a denial of the existence of God (which
would be to lapse into the discourse of theism and atheism). Rather,
“A prejudice relative to the divine essence has been destroyed [e.g.
Providence]; by the same stroke the independence of man is estab-
lished: that is all. The reality of the divine Being is left intact, and our
hypothesis still exists” (PM, p. 451). - PM, p. 468.
- PM, p. 448.
- PM, p. 450.
- JP 6:6256.
- JP 2:1237.
- Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity, p. 14 (see further
p. 14–18). - See note 13 above.
- The Essence of Christianity, p. 16
- The Essence of Christianity, p. 17.
- I elaborate the possible nature of such theological struggle be-
tween contrary views of God in my Struggling With God. - Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46. I explore the ambivalence of
this further in ‘My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Between Consolation & Desolation’, in Christopher C.H. Cook
(ed.), Spirituality, Theology & Mental Health: Multidisciplinary
Perspectives (London: SCM Press, 2013), pp. 193–210.