Either almighty God or a free man: this is an alternative of atheistic
critique of religion. In this context, the aim of the article is to present
Ernst Bloch’s (1885–1977) original proposal, concluded in his Atheism
in Christianity. Standing for atheistic humanism he finds an inspiration
in the Bible, in the classical example of Job’s (undeserved) suffering.
Bloch’s original and appealing concept of Marxist revolution is based on
hope and the idea of liberation, which are very characteristic of him.
This article focuses on such issues of philosophy of religion as the
biblical concept of God, the proposal of Job’s radical dilemma of
righteous man’s suffering or the significance of eschatology for
understanding immutability of God in His essence, who acts in mutable
history