Studium Generale | Let's Ask | Is God Dead?

In April 1966, Time Magazine asked on its front cover: Is God Dead? Is this question as relevant as it was then? As in the sixties of last century, we find ourselves in a world plagued by violence and injustice, and scenarios of the future often paint a bleak picture. Yet almost one hundred and fifty years after Nietzsche famously stated that God is dead, God is actually still very much alive to a great many people. What does this ongoing belief in God say about our so-called ‘secular modernity’?

In this edition of Let’s Ask, Gideon Baker will take Nietzsche’s statement as his starting point, tracing its philosophical, political and theological implications.