The ''Übermensch'' (overhuman, superhuman) was a literary device used in his magnum opus, "[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]". The Overman was to be a new kind of being which would overcome resentment and affirm the Eternal Recurrence of the same.
The statement "God is dead" first appeared in Nietzsche's "[[The Gay Science]]", in Aphorism 108, titled "New Struggles". This very anti-Christian aphorism compares Godintroduces Nietzsche's death famous Madman, who runs out into the street shouting, "God is dead!" Yet, to Buddha'shis dismay, and implores the reader Madman sees "he has come too soon," for people have not realized this cultural revelation for themselves and are blind to take up it. They consider the task of vanquishing the dead GodMadman's shadowseemingly theological claim as absurd for they misunderstand him; it is no argument about the existence of God, necessarily, but a claim of how secular society has become. Some argue Nietzsche was not actually anti-no friend to Christianbeliefs, but unfortunately and this Aphorism leaves little room to claim it. There is passage shows his hope for a common misconception that philosophy of the first appearance future, one he imagined would be emptied of "coarse objective rationalizing, which he characterized as God is dead" comes later and associated with Christianity. Nietzsche, in "[[The Gay Science]]" but other words, felt his message of subjective truth came too soon and hoped, as the text is clearMadman, that he would be understood someday.
Nietzsche's father Carl Ludwig Nietzsche, was a [[Lutheran]] pastor.