The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era by Vahanian, Gabriel

The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781606089842)

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The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era by Vahanian, Gabriel

The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era

$36.00
The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era by Vahanian, Gabriel

The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era

$36.00
Format: Paperback
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The death of God began, according to Vahanian, the moment Western man started to compromise with the Biblical concept of God transcendent, and to merge the identity of the Godhead with the identity of humankind. From this compromise evolved the belief in the possibility of heaven on earth, in human perfectibility, in the expectation that man, both individually and collectively, can control his termporal fate. Today, as a consequence, Western society not only exalts all possible material comforts, but requires as well easy, guaranteed, status-assuring religious affiliations. The present search for inner security is in direct opposition to the toleration of doubt that tests the strength of genuine religious faith. And Vahanian shows how our spiritual decline is reflected in much of the most important imaginative writing of today.

Author: Gabriel Vahanian
ISBN-10: 1606089846
ISBN-13: 9781606089842
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
By Gabriel Vahanian
By Gabriel Vahanian
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Gabriel Vahanian, Professor emeritus at the University of Strasbourg, was educated in Paris and Princeton. In 1958 he founded and directed the graduate program in religion at Syracuse University. He was a founding member of the first board of directors of the American Academy of religion. In 1981-82 he served on the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. His latest book is Praise of the Secular.

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