| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 宗教研究所 === 99 === This thesis endeavor to research the relationship between religion and utopia in Ernst Bloch (1885-1977)’s thought. Bloch brought the imagination of utopia and the hope in religious activities back to Marxism, and wanted to extend the limitation of the historical materialism in traditional Marxism. He used the concepts of ‘not-yet’, ‘newness’, and ‘hope’, a profound exploration of the possible reality of utopia, to reconstruct an openly political theory. He tried to eliminate the alienation between human and nature, the future would be a homeland of ‘new heaven and new earth’ in his system.
In Bloch’s system, there was a spirit of utopia in Christianity. However, the Bible needed to be re-explained. He thought human must have to resist the hegemony of Yahweh, and human needed to return the original one without ‘original sin’. Bloch thought the real ‘hope’ already in the ‘becoming’ in the history, for example, in Joachim of Fiore, Thomas Müntzer, and Karl Marx’s thought. Human need to keep the spirit and move on, and hope the coming of the concrete utopia.
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