1st Edition

Formerly God Rethinking God after God

By Rick Benjamins Copyright 2026
262 Pages
by Amsterdam University Press

God is and remains a meaningful term, even after “the death of God,” but its meaning is by no means clear or unambiguous. Clearly and with a broad perspective, this book challenges classical theology with the criticism that “onto-theology” is no longer possible today and shows in what drastically changed way it might “survive.” It shows how the academic theological conversation about God after... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1. God as a Meaningful Concept

Chapter 2. The Track of This Book

Part One – Formerly God

Chapter 3. Up There Comes from Down Here: Kuitert’s Theological Development

Part Two – God as Spirit and Being

Chapter 4. God and Human Being Are Part of Each Other: Hegel on Spirit

Chapter 5. God Does Not Exist But Happens: Heidegger on Being

Part Three – Theology after Kuitert

Chapter 6. Religion and the Interpretation of Life

Chapter 7. The Deconstruction of Christianity

Chapter 8. God Again

Part Four – God after God

Chapter 9. God Through Humans

Index

Biography

Rick Benjamins wrote a dissertation on Origen of Alexandria and was a minister from 1993 until 2008. He lectured on dogmatics and liberal theology at the PThU and the University of Groningen. From September 2022, he is professor of liberal theology at the PThU.