Around Easter 1966, millions of Americans picked up a magazine with what would become one of the most notable covers in the history of the genre: Time's stark question "Is God Dead?" The main theologian profiled in the piece, William Hamilton, died Feb. 28 at 87. At the time of the article, Hamilton was a professor at Colgate Rochester Divinity School. He was no militant atheist. He was not contemptuous of faith or the faithful. Far from it, as a longtime churchgoer, he was all the more a threat to unreflective Christianity. The issues with which he grappled were eternal and...
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