WESTERN
Atheism in contemporary Theology
Paul Ricoeur: the Religious significance of Atheism
Alasdair MacIntyre and Paul Ricoeur (Columbia
University: NY 1969)
Paul Ricoeur, 'On consolation' Atheism must mean the destruction of the
moral God not only as the ultimate source of accusation but as the ultimate
source of protection, as Providence. But if atheism is to have any
religious significance, the death of the providential God should point toward
a new faith, a tragic faith which would be to classical metaphysics what
the faith of Job was to the archaic law of retribution professed by his pious
friends. 82
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