The theology of the death of God is a theological movement dating back to radical theologians of the 1960s, such as Thomas Altizer and William Hamilton, and continuing in a more diverse form in the work of individuals like Slavoj Žižek and John Caputo The movement dates back to the work of GWF Hegel, of whom Thomas Altizers says: "The phenomenology of spirit is the first philosophical enactment of the death of God" (Altizer). and thinkers like Nietzsche, Lacan, Heidegger, Kierkegaard and Derrida and poets like William Blake The thesis of the Death of God theologians is that in some way "God is dead", whether in the literal sense (God). died on the cross and remained dead) or, without excluding the first, in the symbolic sense (God died on the cross and remained dead) or, without excluding the first, in a symbolic sense (God died on the cross and remained dead) is dead in our culture). Using the theology of the Death of God, we can see how William Yeats's "The Second Coming" describes the condition of man following the death of God and predicts the eventual rise of postmodernity, or "Anti- Christ.” The first two lines of the poem, "Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer";, express a feeling that Altizer calls "The dark night of the soul" (a reference to a poem of the same name by Saint John of the Cross). “The Dark Night of the Soul” for Altizer finds its roots in a distinction made by Kierkegaard between the spheres of objective reason and subjectivity (for Linscott, God was absent). a world linked to objectivity, rationalism, empiricism, etc., which meant that it required an act of subjective will to reach God and acquire Truth. This act of subjective will is called the “act of faith” by Kirkegaard. Altizer tells us that this leap is no longer possible in modernity since death or absenteeism...... middle of paper ......eory: Critical questions. New York: Guilford, 1991. 45-48. Print. Linscott, Andrew. “Radical Theology and the Death of God.” Reverend Radical Theology and the Death of God, by Thomas Altizer and William Hamilton. nd: n. page. About atheisms and theologies. Boston University, 2009. Web. March 26, 2014. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm and Walter Arnold Kaufmann. "Article 125: The Fool." The Gay Science: with a rhyming prelude and an appendix of songs. New York: Vintage, 1974. N. pag. Internet. March 26, 2014. O'Farrell, Clare. "Key Concepts" . Michel-foucault.com, October 30, 2010. Web. March 25, 2014. “The Second Coming.” ed. Spencer Richardson-Jones. Norton. 2013. 1203. Print. Zondervan NIV Study Bible. Fully rev. Kenneth L. Barker, ed. Zondervan, 2002..