Publisher's Synopsis
Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God a hundred and twenty years ago, but Christian theology and Western society are only beginning to come to terms with the implications of this most enigmatic of observations. Scholarly in content but accessible in style, this is the only up-to-date, definitive introduction available to the extraordinary phenomena that has become known as Radical Theology. Romanticism, Marxism, pre and post war German theology, non-realism and the nineteen sixties death of God movement, and now many contemporary writers around the world- they have all reshaped our ideas about God, giving it the rich diversity of experience and expression it comprises today. Tracing the history of the key idea in Western thought from its origins through to the present day, this is the story of the intellectual journey that remade God in the image of man, so that he might become one of us.
