This is what is happening today in the “death of God” theology, which tells us that, although we no longer have God, Jesus remains to us as the symbol of trust that gives us courage to go on.7 In the midst of a world emptied of God, his humanity is to be a sort of proxy for the God who can no longer be discovered. But how uncritical here are those who before were so critical that they were only willing to accept a theology without God, just so as not to appear old-fashioned in the eyes of their progressive contemporaries!
