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From Orthodoxy to Atheism

M. Landry, Stan
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orthodoxy
atheism
apostasy
Bruno Bauer
historical criticism
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Christian denominations
Orthodox (Eastern, Oriental)
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Philosophical Ethics
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This article is an intellectual and social history of the apostasy of the German theologian Bruno Bauer (1809-1882). It locates Bauer’s intellectual and spiritual development from orthodox Protestantism to militant atheism in his exposure to historical criticism of the Bible, exclusion from German academic culture, and association with a group of Berlin atheists and dissidents. This is the first study dedicated exclusively to Bauer’s apostasy. It underscores the personal experience of secularization and offers new insight into the complex intellectual and social processes behind individual apostasy and conversion.
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2011
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