{"id":1324,"date":"2013-08-09T02:17:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T09:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmostheinlost.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/09\/famous-atheists-who-werent-atheists-2-the-christianity-of-camus\/"},"modified":"2015-02-01T22:15:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T05:15:47","slug":"famous-atheists-who-werent-atheists-2-the-christianity-of-camus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/cosmostheinlost\/2013\/08\/09\/famous-atheists-who-werent-atheists-2-the-christianity-of-camus\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 2: The Christianity of Camus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Camus<\/a>
Camus has a new book out: It\u2019s on Christianity<\/a>!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Albert Camus was nearly as unfaithful as\u00a0Jean-Paul Sartre . . . to atheism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This should not be especially surprising to any semi-conscious reader of his novels. \u00a0Despite his good existentialist intentions Camus could never really get beyond good and evil. \u00a0Most of his literary works collapse under the weight of trying to cover up their origins in, and direct debts to, classical Christian doctrines, especially Original Sin.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as if he keeps trying to roll a rock to seal off the tomb, only to find it rolled away every darn morning. \u00a0Just look at the plots of\u00a0The Fall<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0The Plague<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0The First Man<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and tell me God shouldn\u2019t sue for copyright infringement upon\u00a0the biblical narrative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Look<\/a>
Look here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The connections go even deeper as a recent memoir reveals. \u00a0The book is entitled\u00a0Albert Camus & the Minister<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0It is written by the (Methodist) minister, Howard Mumma. \u00a0Mumma hailed from Ohio and met Camus,\u00a0was actually hounded by him<\/a>, during a stint as guest minister at the\u00a0American Church in Paris.<\/a><\/p>\n

The two talked about Christianity constantly and it got to the point where Camus asked to be re-baptized, only to be turned down. Today\u2019s Methodist ministers are nothing like the hardcore Methodist ministers of yesteryear!<\/p>\n

Camus was still actively courting the Christian faith when he was cut down in a car accident. \u00a0We don\u2019t know how things would have turned out if Camus had lived, however,\u00a0as this book recounts<\/a>, he thought he was heading for a reversion. \u00a0Actually, he was already there.<\/p>\n

By the way, Camus has a new book out on\u00a0Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism<\/em><\/a>. No joke.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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