Sartre and Theology [Hardcover]

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the twentieth century's most prominent atheists. But his philosophy was informed by theological writers and themes in ways that have not previously been acknowledged. InSartre and Theology, Kirkpatrick examines Sartre's philosophical formation and rarely discussed early work, demonstrating how, and which, theology shaped Sartre's thinking. She also shows that Sartre's philosophy - especiallyBeing and NothingnessandExistentialism is A Humanism- contributed to several prominent twentieth-century theologies, examining Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Liberation theologians's rebuttals and appropriations of Sartre.

For philosophers, this work opens up an unmined vein of influence on Sartre's work which illuminates his conceptual divergences from the German phenomenological tradition. And for theologians, it offers insights into a theologically informed atheism which provoked responses from some of the twentieth-century's greatest theologians - an atheism from which we can still learn much today.

???[Kirkpatrick???s] findings are both surprising and convincing ??? Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.??? -CHOICEKate Kirkpatrickis Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and Lecturer in Theology at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the Treasurer of the UK Sartre Societyand has published several articles on Sartre and Beauvoir.

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Introduction - Sartre and theology: An Odd Couple?

Part I: Sartre's Theological Inheritance
Ch. 1: Vita Brevis
Ch. 2. Sartre's Theological Formation: In Philosophy
Ch. 3. Sartre's Theological Formation: In Literature

Part II: Sartre's Theological Themes
Ch. 4:Being and Nothingness
Ch. 5. 'Existentialism is a Humanism'

Part III: Sartre's Theological Legacy
Ch. 6. Sartre and Protestantl#t