Kathleen Springer What Does it mean to say God is Dead Popular understanding God does not exist and never existed atheism Death of God Theology Sources Hegel The death of God as Jesus is essential for the birth of the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit is fully manifest as Absolute Spirit whe ID: 603095
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Death of God Theology
Kathleen SpringerSlide2
What Does it mean to say God is Dead?
Popular understanding:
God does not exist and never existed: atheismDeath of God Theology Sources:Hegel: The death of God as Jesus is essential for the birth of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is fully manifest as Absolute Spirit, when human consciousness becomes fully free.Nietzsche: God died out of pity for man and we killed God out of own pity.Bonhoeffer: The project of orthodox Christianity has failed. We need to realize God is dead because then we have the responsibility to be Christians and to see God in the world.
What is Death of God theology?Slide3
Death of God theology provides a unique understanding of Christianity that allows people to integrate the postmodern understanding of the death of God while maintaining a religious framework of and allegiance to Christianity.
ThesisSlide4
TillichDeath of God as a specific critique of Christianity:
Critique does not mean disprove.
Applying death of God theology to Christianity as part of the bigger picture of how Christian thought has developed throughout history.VahanianDeath of God as a cultural artifact: the Christian Church should accept a kind of God that is secular to match the West’s secular society.Literature ReviewSlide5
Tillich
Hegel:
Phenomenology of SpiritVahanian: Nietzsche: The Gay Science, Thus Spoke ZarathustraHegel: Lectures on Philosophy of ReligionBonhoeffer: Letters & Papers from Prison
Influences on Death of God TheologySlide6
How Does Death of God Theology Affect the possibility of orthodox Christianity?
Negative/ Atheism
Rennaration/ reinvigorizationTransformation/ post-ChristianAnalysis