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Article: The Death of God: An Investigation into the History of the Western Concept of God.(Book review)
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- Theological Studies
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- September 1, 2009
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THE DEATH OF GOD: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE HISTORY OF THE WESTERN CONCEPT OF GOD. By Frederiek Depoortere. New York: T. & T. Clark, 2008. Pp. xi + 207. $130.
Frederiek Depoortere's slim volume is an expansive history of the Western concept of God, from the Milesians to Nietzsche, with particular attention to "how we have lost God in the West (viii)." As he mentions in his preface, given the immensity of his project, he has methodically relied on "carefully selected" secondary works to construct this history, leaving to us the judgment of the appropriateness and adequacy of this reliance. Beginning with Nietzsche's proclamation of "the death of God," D. points ...