maximum potential as metaphysics and Nietzsche's words warn of its demise and the end of any metaphysical worldview. If metaphysics is dead, Heidegger warns, that is because from its inception that was its fate. Death of God theology Although theologians since Nietzsche had occasionally used the phrase "God is dead" to reflect increasing unbelief in God, the concept rose to prominence in the late 1950s and 1960s, subsiding in the early 1970s. The German-born theologian Paul Tillich, for instance, was influenced by the writings of Nietzsche, especially his phrase "God is dead." William Hamilton wrote the following about American radical theologian Thomas J. J. Altizer's redeployment of Nietzsche's view: See also Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche Apollonian and Dionysian Christian atheism Postmodern Christianity Nontheism Postmodernity Post-theism Post-monotheism Faith and rationality Theories about religions Notes References Further reading Nietzsche's philosophy Heidegger, Martin. (1943) translated as "The Word of Nietzsche: 'God Is Dead,'" in Holzwege, ed. and trans. Julian Young and Kenneth Haynes. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Kaufmann, Walter. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974. Roberts, Tyler T. Contesting Spirit: Nietzsche, Affirmation, Religion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Benson, Bruce E. Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. Holub, Robert C. Friedrich Nietzsche. New York: Twayne, 1995. Magnus, Bernd, and Kathleen Higgins. The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pfeffer, Rose. Nietzsche: Disciple of Dionysus. Canbury: Associated University Presses, 1972. Welshon, Rex. The Philosophy of Nietzsche. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2004. Death of God theology Thinking through the Death of God: A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer, ed. Lissa McCullough and Brian Schroeder. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo, After the Death of God, ed. Jeffrey W. Robbins. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Resurrecting the Death of God: The Origins, Influence, and Return of Radical Theology, ed. Daniel J. Peterson and G. Michael Zbaraschuk. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. John M. Frame, "Death of God Theology" External links Antitheism Atheism English phrases Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche Philosophical phrases Quotations from philosophy Nihilism Death of God theology German philosophy