Gabriel Vahanian
Gabriel Vahanian ( born January 24, 1927 in Marseille, † August 30 2012 in Strasbourg ) was a French Protestant theologian and author.
Life
Vahanian studied at the École pratique des hautes études and the Institute protestant de théologie in Paris, and then at Princeton Theological Seminary, where in 1958 his Ph.D. made. Vahanian is a representative of God - is - dead theology. His first book, The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post- Christian Era 1961 was recognized by Rudolf Bultmann as a milestone in religious criticism. In the 1960s it came to international debates with other Christian theologians such as Harvey Cox, Paul van Buren, William Hamilton, Thomas Jonathan Jackson Altizer and the Jewish Rabbi Richard Rubenstein in this subject area. After his studies he worked as a university teacher of religion, first at Syracuse University in New York and then at the University of Strasbourg active.