Back from the death: Uniting theists and non-theists by Michael Saunders

7 Jul 2022 | by Michael Saunders

‘We may discover, after the death of God, a God of peace.’

‘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

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.

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