The eternal God is not merely an illusion, as traditional atheism claims; God is an undesirable illusion, in fact, an illusion which is, on closer inspection, impossible to desire. This, roughly, is the thesis of Martin Hägglund's "radical atheism," one of whose primary claims is the essential temporality of all human desire. To see eternity and absolute fullness as the ultimate goal is to desire nothingness, he argues; this desire as such (and not just its practical outworking) entails denial of care for and joy in ordinary life. This essay is a critical dialogue with Hägglund, a friendly dispute about time and eternity as they bear on the possibilities of care and joy.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2016/5 Zweimonatsschrift (2016)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Volf, Miroslav

Schlagwörter: Zeit Ewigkeit Hägglund, Martin