Death of God Theology

Also known as Christian Atheism.

A belief that became popular in the 1960s among some Christian theologians. Some argued that modern secular culture had lost all sense of the sacred, lacking any sacramental meaning, no transcendental purpose or sense of providence, and that for the modern mind "God is dead".

In responding to this collapse in transcendence it was suggested that secular people were offered the option of Jesus as the model human who acted in love. The encounter with the Christ of faith would be open in a church-community.