Atheism in Christianity

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."

Context

Bloch engaged with a Christian-Marxist intellectual dialogue group organized by Milan Machovec and others in 1960s Communist Czechoslovakia. His Atheism in Christianity echoed in Machovec's 1969 book Jesus for Modern Man, published in German in 1972 as Jesus für Atheisten.

Reception

Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian called the book "exhilarating to read".