In 1966, a cover of the popular American magazine Time presented the question, in bold red letters against a black background, “Is God Dead?” The story was not on Nietzsche, but on a movement in theology known as “death of God”, or “radical” theology. Nietzsche's thought, however, was a central reference for this movement. It may seem the height of irony that the thinker best known for his proclamation “God is dead”, the author of The Anti-Christ, has had a significant influence on theology, which is precisely the study of God. The cover of Time in the mid-1960s was Nietzschean theology's most public moment. But, as Vattimo has noted, “the idea that Nietzsche could be read as a Christian thinker [goes] back to the earliest years of his reception” (Vattimo 2001: 184). Significantly, in her book on Nietzsche, Salomé stated that he retained a religious attitude in spite of his alleged atheism (cited in Diethe 2006).