The Resurrection of God
John B. Cobb, Jr.  |
| Basel, Germany, where Friedrich Nietzsche had taught just prior to writing that God had “died.” PHOTO: Patrik Tschudin |
Originally published in the September 2012 issue of Empirical
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If you are literal-minded, the title of this essay won’t make any sense. Anything that could literally “die” would not be God. And what has not died cannot be “resurrected.” But Nietzsche taught us to speak of “the death of God” meaningfully by transposing this “death” onto the field of human imagination and sensibility. Among intellectuals in the late modern world the idea of “God” was losing all credibility.
