
Into the Chaosmos
Peter Rollins - The Archive
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The Death of God
The apostle paul is the first person, basically, to talk about the death of god. The concept starts in a religious environment, but then nobody does anything with it for a long time. Early christian art doesn't have any interest in the crucifixion. Is not very significant at all until luther. And luther makes it central to his thinking. So before humanism, before fir back, all of that, luther says that every time we conceptualize god We make something in our own image. God is always an idol. The god we believe in does not exist. But what i want to say is, is not its philosophical concept. It's a logical concept.
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