is the eleventh solo studio album and second Gospel album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. Complete your Loretta Lynn collection. Radical thought is less welcome. It’s tempting to take them metaphorically, to say “death” and mean “irrelevance,” but they were speaking literally. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Loretta Lynn - Who Says God Is Dead! And for that ethereal touch, the Jordanaires bless the proceedings with their airily dulcet harmonies. In 1966, Altizer and Hamilton published a book of essays on the topic, The article was far more nuanced than the cover might suggest, but Hamilton and Altizer were not hedging in their views. (For example: “Your ugly cover is a blasphemous outrage.”) TheThose three words that had stirred debate among a few radical theologians had suddenly captured the imaginations—and fears—of the nation. He was 12 when a classmate asked him the question: In 2014, Pew Among those concerned with the state of religion in America today, one of the most pressing topics is the “rise of the nones”—the increasing number of people who may identify as spiritual, but claim no religion of their own.And yet, even as Americans belief in God declines, religion retains a powerful hold. God, for better or worse, is not up for debate.
And Ross Hamilton, Don’s older brother, believes there’s still enough interest in his father’s work to merit a documentary.When I caught the nearly-90-year-old theologian by phone, he was in the middle of writing about death. Please update your browser at The April 8, 1966, cover of TIME launched a heated debate—and religious thinkers are still reckoning with the falloutDon Hamilton remembers the day well. He saw religion’s place in the human realm, not in heaven. That’s a sentiment that William Hamilton himself hinted at in a 1985 interview, that maybe God didn’t die but that “the wrong people have him and he should be killed.”For some people, however, the question has never changed. This was back in 1966. at Discogs. In addition to romping through "Harp With Golden Strings" and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," Lynn really sinks her sanctified teeth into waltz-time ballads like "In the Garden" and "Ten Thousand Angels." He still proclaims his apocalyptic theories, but the ecstasy he felt in 1966 is gone.“All the things that were crucial to me in the ’60s are now gone,” he says. Thomas Altizer, another death-of-God theologian featured in the story, believes the same story today would have a far more muted reaction. Jesus Christ was a better model than God for the work that needed to be done by man, of which there was a lot—particularly, for him, within the civil rights movement. (Hamilton and Vahanian both died in 2012; van Buren in 1998.) “We are in a very different world.”The question had been brewing for a few years among Hamilton and Altizer and their colleagues, notably Paul van Buren and Gabriel Vahanian. 8 Theology is relegated to the margins. “At least I can’t imagine it,” he tells TIME. Before long, another friend’s grandmother had started lobbying to have his father, William Hamilton, who was then a professor at Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, N.Y, fired. Am I going to see him in heaven? Considering the amount of conviction Loretta Lynn sings with here, no one has probably ever debated the singer about this album title. It was released on January 29, 1968, by Decca Records. The number of God’s devotees has been shrinking ever since. Rather than going to church, the family started doing Bible reading at home, on their own. This issue arose this year at Wheaton College, when a professor at the evangelical school was suspended after stating that Muslims and Christians worship the sameOn the other hand, just as World War II and civil rights were part of the death-of-God movement, the disconnect that has always hovered at the edges of faith—how can an omnipotent God exist in a world with so much misery and injustice?—continues to press religious thinkers to grapple with how to sustain faith while living a mortal life.Finally, others see all that suffering and wonder not only why believers are not acting to stop it, but whether God is at fault. There was no way to hide Hamilton’s radical view after the April 8, 1966, cover of TIME Magazine asked the same question as young Don’s friend.The story by TIME religion editor John Elson—and the gut-punch question on the cover, the magazine’s first to include only text—inspired countless angry sermons and 3,421 letters from readers. And the two sides of this story are not unconnected. 'God is dead': What Nietzsche really meant The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. There are radical theology Facebook groups; an admin of one of them, Christopher Rodkey, a 39-year-old United Church of Christ pastor in Dallastown, Penn., is putting together a 50th-anniversary edition of Hamilton and Altizer’s 1966 book of essays.