"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" (16)

"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" (16)
With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.(15:37)

The theology of the death of God is connected with other two theologies. One is Harvey Cox’s Secularization theology and the other is Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s de-religionization. Secularization theology basically teaches the repudiation of dualism of sacred-secular which holds the view that God belongs to a sacred domain whereas man belongs to a secular domain of life. Cox claimed that a true faith is to stand firm in his honesty with God.
Bonhoeffer’s de-religionization raises much more fundamental problem than Harvey Cox’s Secularization theology. Cox’s theology stood out for a while because of its strong social analytical character while Bonhoefer’s theology still gives a great influence to humanity even today because of its theological character. An interesting fact is that Bonhoefer’s theology is accepted to both evangelical and ecumenical parties. In fact, his theology is very radical. It greatly influenced the theology of the death of God. He wrote a letter named ‘resistance and obedience’ while he was imprisoned by Nazi Hitler.
Working on hypothesis, now human is able to solve all important questions by themselves without the help of God. Questions relating to science, art or ethics became the glaring examples. So people hardly take risk to argue the pros and cons about this matter. However, this attitude showed the same response to a religious question that was asked by people who lived a hundred years ago. It turns out that everything is going well without God as it has ever been before. The same is the case in the field of science; God is driven out from the human world and to have finally lost his own foundation.”(D. Bonnhoeffer, resistance and obedience, August 6, 1944)