God's funeral : a biography of faith and doubt in western civilization
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Ballantine Books 1999Description: 402pSubject(s): DDC classification:- 215
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In the course of the nineteenth century, the idea of God became unknowable and then impossible. The author had wittily but devastatingly kicked away the logical underpinnings of Christian theology a hundred years before; Nietzsche then declared God dead; and Thomas Hardy, through his poetry, presided glumly over his funeral.
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