What has been traditionally called death of God theology is a headline grabber but it is a misleading misnomer—it should have been called the birth of God.13 God's death does not consist in God becoming human but in not becoming human. The death of God means that the insistence of God is a seed sown in rock, that it withers on the vine, that it goes unheeded, that God does not come to exist, that the name of God fails to be the name of a deed and is nothing more than a tinkling cymbal.
