Abstract: The enlightened atheism of Dom Deschamps is constructed, paradoxically, in opposition to atheists and in support of theology. Deschamps criticizes the atheism of the “semi-Enlightenment” for lacking a metaphysic that, on the contrary, he finds in theology. However, his interpretation of theology is based on a subversion that purifies it to the point of entirely replacing it with a metaphysic that identifies God and nature. The article make a distinction between two types of subversion: heterodoxy and destruction.
