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The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery

by Richard Elliott Friedman · 1995

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Friedman probes a chain of mysteries that concern the presence or absence of God, including the connection between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky who each independently developed the idea of the death of God.

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adult
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medium · 352 pages

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