Religious Naturalism: Modelling and Comparing Ultimacy in Thomas J.J. Altizer’s Death of God Theology and David J. Bohm’s New Age Science
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2024-06-17
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In the aftermath of the 1960s counterculture, a radical immanent worldview took hold of (post)modern consciousness, making it difficult for religions to find their place. Between the 1970s and 1990s, Thomas J.J. Altizer’s (1927-2018) death-of-God theology and David J. Bohm’s (1917-92) New-Age science developed radical immanent visions of God or ultimate reality. These visions can still benefit religious individuals today. This master thesis analyses them through Schellenberg’s definition and Wildman’s models of ultimacy, presenting Altizer’s ‘dialectical movement’ (original ultimacy → apocalypse → ultimate actuality) and Bohm’s ‘holomovement’ (explicate ← implicate ← superimplicate order) as ultimate reality. The concluding comparison places both movements in the ‘religious naturalism’ model of ultimacy M∨A U2-C2, highlighting their mutual elements.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen