William Hamilton was one of the highest-profile theologians of the "death of God" controversy, simultaneously writing about literature, popular culture, and academic theology with a natural eclecticism which was both inviting and alienating to his readers. An ordained Baptist minister, Hamilton, was marginalized by the world of theological education and the church but continued his theological project that he began in his The New Essence of Christianity and his coauthored Radical Theology and the Death of God until the time of his death.