De Lubac discusses an atheism which means to suppress this searching, he says, even including the problem as to what is responsible for the birth of God in human consciousness.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a 20th-century French phenomenological philosopher. Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception, art, politics, religion, biology, psychology, psychoanalysis, language, nature, and history. Read more on Wikipedia →

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