Wilson, A. N., 1950-

God's funeral : a biography of faith and doubt in western civilization - New York Ballantine Books 1999 - 402p.

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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