According to the author, the main efforts of this book are to describe the background and character of the present ferment in theology. It appeared first in the form of a paper on the radical, or "God is dead," theology, written for the Society for Theological Discussion in the fall of 1963. And to assess the importance of this upheaval for contemporary religious thought to point out some of the more characteristic and perhaps damaging weaknesses of the radical theology and then, in Part II, to suggest some preliminary answers to the problems for language about God raised by these developments in contemporary culture.