delivers a new version of his
Lecture on Atheism
In its original form this lecture was given tn November last at Frankfurt-am-Main University, to mark the opening of an Exhibition on Atheism. Eastern and Western, sponsored by the church in the Federal Republic.
' God as we have been led to posit him is intellectually superfluous. is emotionally dispensable, is morally intolerable-and yet. in grace and demand, he will not let us go. The hound of heaven still dogs us. the beyond in our midst still encounters us. when all the images. all the projections, even all the words of God. have been broken.