God Is Not Dead
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Post by Collin Hansen
Christianity Today's July cover takes its cue from the famous Time magazine cover from 1966 that asked, "Is God Dead?" CT responds "not yet" (?) with an article by William Lane Craig. He writes, "To paraphrase Mark Twain, the news of God's demise was premature. For at the same time theologians were writing God's obituary, a new generation of young philosophers was rediscovering his vitality." Craig sees a turning point in 1967 with the publication of Alvin Plantinga's God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God.
The cover package also includes Craig's recommended reading on the existence of God.
Christianity Today's July cover takes its cue from the famous Time magazine cover from 1966 that asked, "Is God Dead?" CT responds "not yet" (?) with an article by William Lane Craig. He writes, "To paraphrase Mark Twain, the news of God's demise was premature. For at the same time theologians were writing God's obituary, a new generation of young philosophers was rediscovering his vitality." Craig sees a turning point in 1967 with the publication of Alvin Plantinga's God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God.
The cover package also includes Craig's recommended reading on the existence of God.
posted by Collin Hansen at Thursday, July 03, 2008
9 Comments:
Good and interesting article... bookmarked for a more detailed read later.
It would be interesting if someone transcribed the famous Bahnsen-Stein debate with commentary into a book that would make that debate more accessible.
42 years later... take that!
msc,
A transcript of the debate is available here.
It may not be the sort of commentary you had in mind, but The Great Debate: Does God Exist? (Multimedia Edition) includes a section titled, "Reflections".
Why add the word "yet" to the title? Why not just "God is not dead." ???
Re: "yet." I wondered the same thing--but I think it's probably because the original cover story of "God is dead" wasn't about ontology per se, but rather about the "death of God" in the academy. Likewise, "God is not dead yet" is about his "resurrection within the academy"--he might "die" again!
Does that make sense?
JT
I don't believe he was ever there in the first place.
Let me invite you to see my response to "God Is Not Dead Yet" that has just been published at the web-mag Religion Dispatches. I'm eager for readers and feedback, so I'd love to hear if you have any reactions.
At Religion Dispatches.
A mention of it on my blog, The Row Boat.
If you do respond on your blog, let me know, and I'd be happy to link to it from mine.
Let me invite you to see my response to "God Is Not Dead Yet" that has just been published at the web-mag Religion Dispatches. I'm eager for readers and feedback, so I'd love to hear if you have any reactions.
At Religion Dispatches.
A mention of it on my blog, The Row Boat.
If you do respond on your blog, let me know, and I'd be happy to link to it from mine.
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