Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
16. What Is Christian Atheism?
Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
Gavin Hyman [+]
University of Lancaster
Gavin Hyman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, University of Lancaster, UK. He has written widely on atheism and on the philosophy of
religion more generally, including A Short History of Atheism (2010).
Description
This chapter looks at the origins of the Christian atheism movement in the USA in the 1960s. It also looks at later variants, particularly Christian non-realism in the UK in the 1980s, as well as more recent usages of the term in a sociological context.