Gabriel Vahanian

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Gabriel Vahanian (born January 24, 1927 in Marseille , † August 30, 2012 in Strasbourg ) was a French Protestant theologian and author . He is known as a proponent of God-is-dead theology .

Life

Vahanian, whose parents came from Armenia , graduated from high school in Valence in 1945 and then studied at the École pratique des hautes études and the Institut protestant de théologie in Paris and later at Princeton Theological Seminary , where he obtained his Master of Theology in 1950 and his Ph .D. attained. As a university lecturer, he taught at Syracuse University in New York from 1961 to 1984 and then at the University of Strasbourg , where he retired in 1995.

His first book The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era from 1961 was recognized by Rudolf Bultmann as a milestone in religious criticism. In the 1960s there were international debates with other Christian theologians such as Harvey Cox , Paul van Buren , William Hamilton , Thomas Jonathan Jackson Altizer and the rabbi Richard Rubenstein on this subject.

Works (selection)

  • 1961: The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era , New York, George Braziller
    • Culture without god? Analyzes and theses on the post-Christian era. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973.
  • 1964: Wait Without Idols , New York: George Braziller
  • 1966: No Other God , New York: George Braziller
  • 1977: God and Utopia: The Church in a Technological Civilization , New York: Seabury Press, ISBN 0816403554
  • 1992: L'utopie chrétienne , Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, ISBN 2220032442
  • 1996: La foi, une fois pour toutes: méditations kierkegaardiennes , Geneva: Labor et Fides, ISBN 2830908368
  • 2002: Anonymous God: An Essay on Not Dreading Words , Aurora: Davies Group, ISBN 1888570571
  • 2004: Tillich and the New Religious Paradigm , Aurora: Davies Group, ISBN 1888570628

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  1. ↑ Communication from the University of Virginia Press v. September 4, 2012 (English), last accessed on September 14, 2012
  2. ^ Obituary in the New York Times v. 9/11 September 2012 (English), last accessed September 14, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Vahanian, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH France
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2012