Suspicion and Faith – The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism Westphal Hardback

Suspicion and FaithThe Religious Uses of Modern Atheism\nAuthor(s): Merold Westphal\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823218752, 978-0823218752\nSynopsis\nAvailable in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers\n Marx, Nietzche, and Freud are among the most influential of modern atheists. The distinctive feature of their challenge to theistic and specifically Christian belief is expressed by Paul Ricoeur when he calls them the \""masters of suspicion.\"" While skepticism directs its critique to the truth or evidential basis of belief, suspicion asks two different, intimately intertwined questions: what are the motives that lead to this belief? and what function does it play, what work does it do for the individuals and communities that adopt it.\n What suspicion suspects is that the survival value of religious beliefs depends on satisfying desires and interests that the believing.