Taking the Death-of-God Seriously

Abstract

“It must be insisted that this absence or death of God is no mere cynicism or loss of faith to be reproved as moral irresponsibility, or dismissed as a failure correctly to read the evidence. This is a mood of our time to which Christian theology must speak intelligibly. … It may not represent everybody, but it does represent a large segment, of young people in particular, to whom the traditional language and institutional forms of Christianity seem very empty. However, this theology is more than a diagnosis. It is also a prescription, and a prescription which offers the disease as the cure.”