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Feuerbach's inversion

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What theologians was Feuerbach reading? If God is to be transcendent, he said, "the human, considered as such, is depreciated. . . . To enrich God, man must become poor; that God may be all in all, man must be nothing."

He certainly wasn't reading Paul, or if he was, he precisely inverted the gospel, the good news of a God who became poor that we might be rich.

posted by Peter J. Leithart on Monday, October 09, 2006 at 03:56 PM

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