TY - BOOK AU - Feuerbach,Ludwig AU - Eliot,George TI - The Essence of Christianity: Translated from the second German edition AV - B PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Christianity -- Controversial literature KW - Religion -- Philosophy N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Essence_of_Christianity; Release date is 2014-10-02; Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Essence of Christianity" by Ludwig Feuerbach is a philosophical work published in 1841. It argues that God is not a separate being but rather an outward projection of human nature and needs. Feuerbach contends that every divine quality attributed to God actually corresponds to human features, making religion a mirror of humanity rather than a revelation from above. This influential critique of religion shaped later thinkers including Marx and Engels, establishing Feuerbach's theory of alienation and cementing the work as a classic of humanist philosophy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47025 ER -