Can There Be a Religious Humanist Theology?

What would a religious humanist theology look like? If we assert that the divine is incomprehensible and ineffable, then how can we speak of any sort of encounter or relationship with the divine? Since we offer a humanist approach to religion, we might want to begin with human consciousness. Let’s, therefore, start with a premise that the search for the divine in the cosmos is, in effect, a desire to “ensoul” the cosmos, to discover a universal, cosmic human consciousness.  In his book, The Essence of Christianity, written in 1855, the German theologian Ludwig Feuerbach declares that God is nothing more or less than our own self-consciousness projected onto the cosmos. This projection, however, separates, alienates humanity from its true divine essence. Feuerbach understood Christianity, the incarnation of the divine in Christ, as the reintegration of an alienated divine/human consciousness.