It is Altizer's claim that Barth, Bultmann, Tillich, and the other
dialectic theologians were never able to transcend an inherited Lutheran dualism.
Altizer is
a dialectic theologian.
Not exact matches
Within this
dialectic between bishop and
theologian, the Church has been and continues to be enriched.
While the traditional ontology of a
theologian such as Tillich tends to resolve the paradox of Christian faith, Altizer's
dialectic intensifies it.
Any attempt to break loose from the path set out by Schleiermacher and to find a way in which to make the transcendent God our subject, rather than some aspect of ourselves, could be called an apophantic theology, standing as it does in that tradition of paradox or
dialectic that marked the Cappadocian
theologians and has always been a part of the theological tradition.
As far as I am concerned, in spite of the criticisms of some modern
theologians, we must continue to emphasize the
dialectic of the «already and not yet» of the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God.