by Ron Rolheiser | Jun 13, 2017 | Opinion
When Friedrich Nietzsche declared that “God is dead,” he added this question: “What kind of a sponge does it take to wipe away a whole horizon?” I often ask that question because just in my own lifetime there has been an unprecedented decline...
by Lee Camp | May 15, 2015 | Opinion
Happiness is central to historical Christian faith and practice. But what does it look like and how should it be experienced? There are at least three common headings under which joy or happiness are often considered: 1. The experience of pleasures or delights,...
by Lee Camp | May 14, 2015 | Opinion
I have often enjoyed reading social critics, as diverse as Leo Tolstoy and Reinhold Niebuhr, and even one of the greatest of modern haters of Christians, Friedrich Nietzsche, whom I first started reading as an undergraduate many years ago. There is a discomfiting ring...
by Britt Towery | Apr 3, 2007 | Opinion
Friedrich Nietzsche’s statement God is dead (German: “Gott ist tot”), has had many interpretations and offshoots in the century since first suggested. From the theologian and academic evolved all sorts of theories from the demise of God, and things...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Apr 21, 2005 | Opinion
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) made the scandalous proclamation that “God is dead” in one of his well-known works, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (1882). The church’s initial reaction was to condemn him and his brand of...
