Cooper's tome tackles an important issue !!!
-- is there a god? -- is god merely absent or has s/he
'died' in some way? -- how are we to make life meaningful?

but Cooper lets his theater-training creep out in one unforgettable chapter, during which the naive reader is drawn into a tangential web of inferences inspired by dramaturgical zealotry. The dude -- Dr. Cooper of East Stroudsburg (PA) University -- tests the patience of his readers with an almost merciless string of references to plays by Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, even Sophocles. and all the while, as you might've guessed, Ole Doc Cooper stridently rails against the Death of God theologians of the sixties! doesn't he even give 'em a chance? Nope. Guilty until proven innocent, for those poor scholars-of-the-abyss.
If you're a-searchin' for an unbiased examination of the ideas surrounding THE last interesting movement in modern theology -- that of 'Christian Atheism' -- then you're in for a boatload of disppointment if you decide to purchase and then read Doc Cooper's terrible tome.