Of course, the field of philosophy entire, being
about 2500 years old today, more or less, shows
an extensive role for �God� to play from time to
time, often distinguished, sometimes notorious.
But with man�s coming of age, so-given to his
generation by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and
the coming world civilization, so-called by
William Ernest Hocking�both of whom favored
some sort of social deity�the divine�s demise
became front-page news and even theological
seminarians had to pay attention to The Death
of God. Thomas Altizer deserves credit as the leading
thinker of depth on record for no one else proved as
adept or bold at prospecting for gold in that minefield.
The Sixties as a culturally iconographic period never
quite recovered from the odd press all that produced.
Perhaps long hair was too hollow a symbol.
