chapter 11; Has God a future?
The world we know is passing away
New world order seems no less freightening than the old
Maybe God really an idea of past
Atheism no longer reduced by a particular idea of God, but automatic response to life in secularised society.
Jean Paul Sartre, 1980, his atheism positive liberation
Ponty, 1961, Albert Camus, 1960, similar thoughts
Ayer, 1991, logical positivist, atheism is as unintelligible and meaningless as theism
In 1950s linguistic pholosophers criticized Logical positivism
Death of God theologians in 1960s
Thomas J Altizer, Paul van Buren, no longer possible to speak of God acting in the world
William Hamilton, against death of God, being Protestant in twentieth century
James H Cone, black theologian, critisized white people and their theology death of God
Richard Rubinstein, Jewish theologian, preferred god of Jewish mystics, Issac Luria's doctrine of tsimtsum
Hans Jonas, God shares the weakness of human beings
Louis Jacob, British theologian, better to return to the classic explanation that God is greater than human
Hans Kung, Christian theologian, agrees with Jacob
Karl Barth, 1968; swiss theologian, only valid source of God-knowledge was the bible
Paul Tilich, 1965, personal God a harmful idea
a tinkering God
'God' of a theism lost its symbolic force, instead seek the God
Claimed that there is no special religious experience, God is fundamental to all human experience
de Chardin, 1955, Jesuit, paleontologist, combined his belief in God with modern science
Evolution from matter to spirit to personality to God
Daniel Day Williams, 1960s, Process theology, God's unity with world
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