Taking the Death-of-God Seriously
“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 every...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1966
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Theology today
Year: 1966, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 183-199 |
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| Summary: | “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.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057366602300204 |