Christian atheism is a form of Christianity that rejects the theistic claims of Christianity, but draws its beliefs and practices from Jesus' life and teachings as recorded in the New Testament Gospels and other sources. Christian atheism takes many forms: Some include an ethics system. Some are types of cultural Christianity. Some Christian atheists take a theological position in which the theistic belief in the transcendent or interventionist God is rejected or absent in favor of finding God totally in the world (Thomas J. J. Altizer). Others follow Jesus in a godless world (William Hamilton). Hamilton's Christian atheism is similar to Jesuism. Beliefs Thomas Ogletree, Frederick Marquand Professor of Ethics and Religious Studies at Yale Divinity School, lists these four common beliefs: The assertion of the unreality of God for our age, including the understandings of God which have been a part of traditional Christian theology. The insistence upon coming to grips with contemporary culture as a necessary feature of responsible theological work. Varying degrees and forms of alienation from the church as it is now constituted. Recognition of the centrality of the person of Jesus in theological reflection. God's existence According to Paul van Buren, a Death of God theologian, the word God itself is "either meaningless or misleading". Van Buren contends that it is impossible to think about God and says: We cannot identify anything which will count for or against the truth of our statements concerning 'God'. The inference from these claims to the "either meaningless or misleading" conclusion is implicitly premised on the verificationist theory of meaning. Most Christian atheists believe that God never existed, but there are a few who believe in the death of God literally. Thomas J. J. Altizer is a well-known Christian atheist who is known for his literal approach to the death of God. He often speaks of God's death as a redemptive event. In his book The Gospel of Christian Atheism, he says: Every man today who is open to experience knows that God is absent, but only the Christian knows that God is dead, that the death of God is a final and irrevocable event and that God's death has actualized in our history a new and liberated humanity. Dealing with culture Theologians including Altizer and Colin Lyas, a philosophy lecturer at Lancaster University, looked at the scientific, empirical culture of today and tried to find religion's place in