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God is Dead Debate...
God is Dead Debate...
Item # 722525
January 09, 1966
NEW YORK TIMES, January 9, 1966 Page E-7 has the noteworthy article: "'God is Dead' Debate Widens", written by John Cogley, which tells of the "God is Dead Movement" espoused by theologian, Dr. Thomas Altizer, of Emory University. Included is a cartoon reprinted from Christianity Today. It is interesting to note this article was printed a few month's prior to Time Magazine's infamous Easter edition cover: "IS GOD DEAD?".
Present are sections A and E, disbound from a bound volume, and in nice condition.
AI notes: John Cogley’s 1966 reporting on the "Death of God" movement serves as a sophisticated autopsy of mid-century religious relevance, capturing a moment where radical theologians argued that the traditional, transcendent "God of the heavens" had effectively ceased to exist in the modern consciousness. Cogley didn't approach this as a nihilist or an atheist, but as a bridge-builder, translating the dense academic theories of figures like Thomas J.J. Altizer—who posited that the divine had fully emptied itself into the secular world—into a narrative that resonated with a public increasingly defined by scientific empiricism and social revolution. By documenting this shift, Cogley highlighted a profound paradox: while the institutional "God" of dogma was fading, the vacuum left behind was triggering an intense, secular search for the "historical Jesus" as a model for radical ethics and civil rights activism. His work effectively chronicled the birth of a "secular Christianity," suggesting that for the modern person, faith was no longer about looking upward toward a supernatural entity, but looking outward at the responsibilities of human existence in an "adult" world that could no longer rely on divine intervention.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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