Nietzsche's Writing Against Religion and the Crisis of Faith: Twentieth-Century Christian Reactions and Responses - Hardcover

This book offers an exercise in reception theory and investigates the key figures in the reception of Nietzsche's critique of Judeo-Christianity in the course of the twentieth century. It has often been remarked upon -- but rarely, if ever, explained -- why Nietzsche, the author of the famous parable in The Gay Science in which a madman announces the "death of God" and a self-proclaimed opponent...