God Is Not Dead: On Religion and Enlightenment

As early as the 18th century, the God of Jews, Christians and Muslims was the first and most famous victim of the Enlightenment. On many fronts, the Enlightenment made firewood of religious traditions. Science and technology no longer needed God as a hypothesis. And political democracy was also not based on some revelation. Secularization gradually drove God out of every sector of public life. And what was left of God was crushed by prosperity and progress.

But was the Enlightenment as atheistic as its most radical enlighteners claim? Was the God so many critics declared dead really the God of Jews, Christians, and Muslims? Or did they simply clear away the rubble beneath which faith and religion had been buried?

God is not dead is an impassioned plea for an enlightened faith and a believing enlightenment. Mark Heirman does this in a personally felt way. He feeds his argument with what he himself believes and does not believe.