Sentences with phrase «radical theology»

Radical theology was not only Christian, religious and theological; it was in many ways profoundly conservative.

From its beginnings, radical theology was both Christian (van Buren, Hamilton) and religious (Altizer)-- and later Jewish and religious (Rubenstein).

Radical theology said No to this God and insisted that it remained Christian (or Jewish), religious and theological in so doing.

Radical theology had only tenuous connections with secular theology, which was primarily a reformist species of the classical biblical theology of creation.

In that statement one can discern the precise distance between Bonhoeffer and radical theology.

On the other hand, radical theology and the experience of the death of God appear to have been profoundly connected to the outburst of American religiosity, Oriental and otherwise, in the late 1960s.

Finally, we can not fail to add that radical theology, as here conceived, has a distinctively American form.

The English bishop, author of the best - selling Honest to God, develops the implications of his radical theology for how Jesus is to be understood by Christians.

In response to this sort of self - query, radical theology is being more and more drawn into the disciplines of intellectual history and literary criticism to answer the «when» question, and into philosophy and the behavioral sciences to answer the «why» question.

Nevertheless, it is increasingly true that the nineteenth century is to radical theology what the sixteenth century was to Protestant neo-orthodoxy.

This is the position of the death of God or radical theology.

This is a difficult and beautiful essay, and it is about the new America in which optimism is possible, the America in which the radical theology is trying to live.

Radical theology is peculiarly a product of the mid-twentieth century; it has been initiated by Barth and neo-orthodoxy into a form of theology which can exist in the midst of the collapse of Christendom and the advent of secular atheism.

«Post-Christian Aspects of the Radical Theology,» Toward a New Christianity: Readings in the Death of God Theology, Thomas J. J. Altizer, ed.

Religion in America is becoming more conservative just when Christ's radical theology is most needed.

Some say that the radical theology movement died like so many fads of the «60s; it was a «theology of the month» that made a flash and disappeared.

Hamilton is still thinking and writing about the death of God, still trying to come to terms with its implications, still working to articulate the project of radical theology.

Radical theology and feminist theology are going to have to join hands.

With the 1966 publication of Radical Theology and the Death of God, a book he wrote with Thomas Altizer, Hamilton joined several other young theologians in shaking the foundations of the American theological establishment.

Bultmann, with his program for a present - and future - oriented theology, sets the stage for much of radical theology's views on the relevance of time and history for Christian faith.

Used as a slogan by those who must popularize and sensationalize, it has led to the detriment of radical theology rather than to an enhancement of its real contribution to an understanding of modern culture.

In an essay entitled «Post-Christian Aspects of the Radical Theology,» Maynard Kaufman suggests that all the valid insights of death - of - God theology can be retained without the loss of a doctrine of transcendence.

Yes, radical theology, as I understand it, just like the radical faith that is its source, does embody a quest for total redemption, and it does deny ultimate differentiation.

Therefore, he has not been able to demonstrate convincingly that it is really possible in this regard for his brand of death - of - God radical theology to be grounded in the life of the Church.

This essay does not purport to be a fully adequate encounter with Altizer's radical theology; but however small, I hope it will be a genuine contribution to the ongoing task of responsible theological reaction to the earnest questions and challenges put to the Catholic faith by members of the death - of - God movement.

Thomas J. J. Altizer, «The Sacred and the Profane,» in Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton, eds., Radical Theology and the Death of God (The Bobbs - Merrill Company, Inc., 1966), p. 147.

Maynard Kaufman, «Post-Christian Aspects of the Radical Theology,» in Thomas J. J. Altizer, ed., Toward a New Christianity (Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1967), pp. 353 - 357.

Hopefully, radical theology is truly apolitical and nonethical, if responsible ethical and political action are identified with the established forms of modern Western politics and ethics.

See Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton, Radical Theology and the Death of God (The Bobbs - Merrill Company, Inc., 1966), pp. 120, 148; and Thomas J. J. Altizer, The Gospel of Christian Atheism (The Westminster Press, 1966), pp. 12, 147 - 157.

Radical theology's «new forms of faith may be seen to have an apocalyptic form: the new humanity that they proclaim dawns only at the end of all that we have known as history; its triumph is inseparable from the disintegration of the cosmos created by historical man, and it calls for the reversal of all moral law and the collapse of all historical religion.

Process theology differs sharply, however, from radical theology's solution to the problem of God and its eschatological and apocalyptic view of man.

American radical theology, or the death - of - God movement, is generally seen as a negation of traditional Christianity in the name of honesty and modernity.

This picture of radical theology is appropriate to much of what has been taking place, but it is profoundly misleading when applied to Altizer.

What you will find is a humanistic Puritan commenting on the work of a radical theologian — in many ways no new situation, since radical theology has important roots in left - wing Puritanism, and there is a long history of bitter controversy between Puritanism and its left wing.

The quest is also expressed by the term «radical» in «radical theology,» for it is characteristic of radical theology as Dr. Altizer uses the term that it involves a quest for totality, which denies ultimate differentiation.

Cf. also his «Word and History,» Radical Theology and the Death of God (Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill, 1966) 121 - 138.

Altizer and William Hamilton, Radical Theology and the Death of God (New York: The Bobbs - Merrill Co., 1966), p. 40.

By shifting attention from Enlightenment questions of credibility to postmodern questions of practical effect, radical theology has accomplished a great deal.

Thomas J. J. Altizer, «William Blake and the Role of Myth,» in Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton, eds., Radical Theology and the Death of God (The Bobbs - Merrill Company, Inc., 1966), p. 186.

On the present occasion, a journal issue devoted to exhibiting the implications for theology of post-Whiteheadian metaphysics, it is my function to point out that post-Whiteheadian metaphysics, in one of its developments, points towards a radical theology in the sense made popular by the Death of God movement.

Kaufman, Maynard, «Post-Christian Aspects of the Radical Theology,» Toward a New Christianity, ed.

This strange mixture has so far defied attempts to reduce it to neat categories, although one of the better recent studies places Schweitzer among the death - of - God theologians, who exhibit similar kinds of eclecticism (see Schweitzer: Prophet of Radical Theology, by Jackson Lee Ice [Westminster, 1971]-RRB-.

They were written by other authors in an attempt to make Paul's radical theology more compatible with the culture and theology of the Roman Empire.

(5) Now we may understand why his early dating of John poses no threat to his radical theology as conservatives first thought it must.

If theology is tested by its ability to shape new kinds of personal and corporate existence in the times in which it lives, then it would seem that radical theology may be able to pass such a test.

Radical theology isn't everything and doesn't claim to be.

What is the relation of radical theology to the Church?

Her view, it would say, reflects a heritage rooted in religious establishment, even if today it wants to establish a radical theology instead of a conservative one.

Accordingly, I seized upon the Catholic theological category of analogy or analogia entis, assuming, first, that it is the primary foundation of the Catholic understanding of God, and, second, that only a radical reconception of this category can make possible a genuinely Catholic form of radical theology.

Reprinted in Altizer and Hamilton, eds., Radical Theology, pp. 121 - 139.