One important strain of the death of God theology not mentioned by Time in 1966 was its relevance for Jewish self-understanding after the Holocaust. In that same year, the rabbi and theologian Richard Rubenstein offered his wrenching Nietzschean confession of Jewish faith in his After Auschwitz (1966).Though his exploration is shot through with references to Nietzsche, Rubenstein adopted the moniker “death of God theology” much more reluctantly than his Christian counterparts.
