‘We could do worse as a Religious Society of Friends than to bear witness to the possibility of a vulnerable faith.’ Photo: by Cherry Laithang on Unsplash
Back from the death: Uniting theists and non-theists by Michael Saunders
‘We may discover, after the death of God, a God of peace.’
God – or at least a certain image of God – has died for Quaker Meetings. This kind of death was once welcomed by a radical and predominantly Christian theological grouping: the ‘death of God’ movement of the 1960s. It counted among its members such theologians as Thomas JJ Altizer, William Hamilton, and Paul van Buren.