age.5 The liberal theologians of the prewar years affirmed the existence of God, albeit in terms more theistic—even deistic—than Christian; the philosophers of the postwar years seemed convinced that God was dead, or at least so shrouded in the mists of twentieth-century warfare and apocalyptic human suffering as to be inapproachable and past engaging.6 We know what the postmodern world thinks of God and the study of God by virtue of the academy’s long shuffling of spiritual things from “divinity”