The death of God, the culture of our post-Christian era. / Gabriel Vahanian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vahanian, Gabriel, 1927-2012.

Contributor:

Ramsey, Paul.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death of God theology.

Secularism.

Civilization, Modern.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 253 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : George Braziller, [1961]

Contents:

Part One: The Religious Agony of Christianity. Modern religiosity and the Christian tradition; The dishabilitation of the Christian tradition; Misbegotten revival; Christianity, secularity, and secularism; The case for a new christian culture; Present culture and its case against christianity

Part Two: The Cultural Agony of Christianity. Cultural incapacity for God: the absence of God's reality; Cultural disavowal of God: the reality of God's absence; The legacy of christianity: its self-invalidation.

Notes:

Preface by Paul Ramsey (p. xiii-xxix).

Includes bibliography.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok New York April 1966".

OCLC:

312626