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The theme of God's "death" became more explicit in the theosophism [clarification needed] of the 18th- and 19th-century mystic William Blake.In his intricately engraved illuminated books, Blake sought to throw off the dogmatism of his contemporary Christianity and, guided by a lifetime of vivid visions, examine the dark, destructive, and apocalyptic undercurrent of theology.
The Death of God and the Meaning of Life is a book by Julian Young, in which the author examines the meaning of life in today's secular, post-religious scientific world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] See also
Hieronymus Bosch's 1500 painting The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.The four outer discs depict (clockwise from top left) Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. In Christian eschatology, the Four Last Things (Latin: quattuor novissima) [1] are Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, the four last stages of the soul in life and the afterlife.
Thomas Jonathan Jackson Altizer (May 28, 1927 – November 28, 2018) was an American university professor, religious scholar, and theologian, noted for his incorporation of Death of God theology and Hegelian dialectical philosophy into his body of work.
God is dead" (German: Gott ist tot [ɡɔt ɪst toːt] ⓘ; also known as the death of God) is a statement made by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The first instance of this statement in Nietzsche's writings is in his 1882 The Gay Science , where it appears three times.
In contrast to the two enigmatic references to Enoch and Elijah, there are ample references to the fact that death is the ultimate destiny for all human beings, that God has no contact with or power over the dead, and that the dead do not have any relationship with God (see, inter alia, Ps. 6:6, 30:9–10, 39:13–14, 49:6–13, 115:16–18 ...
"Is God Dead?" was an April 8, 1966, cover story for the news magazine Time. [1] A previous article, from October 1965, had investigated a trend among 1960s theologians to write God out of the field of theology. The 1966 article looked in greater depth at the problems facing modern theologians, in making God relevant to an increasingly secular ...
Peter Rollins (born 31 March 1973) is a Northern Irish writer, public speaker, philosopher, producer and theologian. [1]Drawing largely from various strands of continental philosophy, Rollins' early work operated broadly from within the tradition of apophatic theology, while his more recent books have signalled a move toward the theory and practice of death of God theology.