Rede des toten Christus vom Weltgebäude herab, daß kein Gott sei

Rede des toten Christus vom Weltgebäude herab, daß kein Gott sei, title given to a passage of prose written by Jean Paul in the form of a dream, in which the dead rise to hear Christ's discovery that there is no God. It ends with an awakening which implies a return to belief. The Rede, which is appended as 1. Blumenstück to his novel Blumen-, Frucht- und Dornenstücke (otherwise known as Siebenkäs, 1796-7), is a development of an earlier dream (of 1789) in which the sermon of godlessness is preached by Shakespeare.