ABSTRACT

Atheology specifically argues that atheism is a reasonable stance against god-belief, so it only concerns religion's propensity to encourage belief in gods, along with associated notions about pondering divine plans, worrying about an afterlife, saving one's soul, anticipating reincarnation, and so forth. Atheology primarily focuses on standard theological systems and novel theological developments. In order for systematic atheology to focus on reasoning directly with theology, its philosophical strategies must be distinguished from other kinds of atheological tactics used on behalf of atheism. Radical theologies have explored authentic religious lives unencumbered by worries over a god real enough to become the object of a contest between logocentric philosophy and onto-theology. Western theology was developed and designed for the explanation of theism in the course of its development from Plato to Aquinas, but its purview expanded since the Renaissance, as creative conceptions about god's peculiar kind of reality have proliferated.