The Essence of Christianity: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Essence of Christianity, credited to Ludwig Feuerbach, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Essence of Christianity, by Ludwig Feuerbach. Read by Rom Maczka. Taking issue with Hegel's sense that God, as Logos, is somehow central to all that is, Feuerbach explores his own notion that Christianity, as religion, grew quite naturally from ordinary human observation. Only upon deeper, systematic reflection did people postulate a divine source--God. Religious teaching which loses sight of its own essential rootedness in human experience runs the risk becoming overly abstract, disconnected even, from realities which shape humanity and which impart meaning and dignity to life. Fuerbach illustrates this not only on the example of the doctrine of God, but also with respect to creation, prayer, miracles, Trinitarianism, sacramentalism, and other dogmas at the core of Christianity. (Introduction by Rom Maczka)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Essence of Christianity
• Author credits: Ludwig Feuerbach
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 14:31:22

Catalogue topics

• audibook
• christianity
• Feuerbach, religion

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 00 - Preface, Part II — 19:50
2. 01 - Preface, Part II — 18:20
3. 02 - Essential Nature of Man — 34:54
4. 03 - The Essence of Religion Considered Generally, Part I — 34:27
5. 04 - The Essence of Religion Considered Generally, Part II — 28:25
6. 05 - God as a Being of Understanding — 35:33
7. 06 - God as a Moral Being, or Law — 15:56
8. 07 - Mystery of the Incarnation — 28:22
9. 08 - Mystery of the Suffering God — 17:44
10. 09 - The Mystery of the Trinity and the Mother of God — 26:50
11. 10 - The Mystery of the Logos and Divine Image — 18:08
12. 11 - The Mysery of the Cosmogonical Principle in God — 21:23
13. 12 - The Mystey of Mysticism. Part I — 22:00
14. 13 - The Mystery of Mysticism, part II — 23:00
15. 14 - The Mystery of Providence — 31:02
16. 15 - Significance of the Creation in Judaism — 22:12
17. 16 - The Omnipotence of Feeling — 18:25
18. 17 - The Mystery of Faith — 26:20
19. 18 - The Mystery of the Resurrection — 14:13
20. 19 - The Mystery of the Christian Christ — 27:46
21. 20 - The Distinction between Christianity and Heathenism — 30:18
22. 21 - The Significance of Voluntary Celibacy and Monachism — 24:56
23. 22 - The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality, Part I — 22:57
24. 23 - The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality, Part II — 25:44

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