Christianity appears to be destined to take its place along with other religions and deities of human history that have died. The God of Christianity will be in a long line that has included Baal, Chemosh, Marduk, the gods of Olympus and the deities of the mystery cults. Each is now a lost chapter in the human pursuit of a spiritual dimension. At the same time, if Christianity is to survive it must undergo so radical a transformation that people may well see no continuity between the Christianity of yesterday and the Christianity of tomorrow.

