Variations On The "Death Of God" Theme In Recent Theology

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Philosophy

 

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Virginia S

 

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April 8, 2014

 

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One observes both panic in the face of "atheism" on the part of defenders of orthodoxy, and uncritical enthusiasm for the expression on the part of dilettanti. Forensic alarms from the former and superficial slogans from the latter serve only to obscure the truly serious issues in the new situation in theology...
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The variations on the theme of the "death of God" - absence, disappearance, silence, withdrawal, eclipse - indicate the particular character of the theological problem but also reveal the difficulty in defining exactly what the Nietzschean expression means in contem- porary theological vocabulary. This article will note briefly the historical situation which produced the expression, then indicate three basic variations on the theme in Sartre, Heidegger, and Buber, and finally illustrate how five young American theologians, Vahanian, Altizer, Hamilton, Van Buren, and Cobb, deal with the expression...
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