This experience seems to have shaped the rather optimistic view of the Catholic Church's
dialogue with modern culture found in Vatican II's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.
In January 1962 he and a number of other young academics launched the journal Dialog, which they intended as a kind of Lutheranesque Vatican II that might draw a provincial and stagnant denomination into creative
engagement with modern culture.
At Northwestern, Fenchel made work in a variety of mediums focusing on occult / ancient cultures and their
parallels with modern cultures (hip hop and Nintendo).
Altizer once said of Hamilton that he was the «first theologian to break through the barriers of Protestant neo-orthodoxy and formulate a theological acceptance of the death of God,» which he accomplished by «entering into an open
dialogue with modern culture.»
The distinctive feature of fundamentalism is its dialogue
with modern culture.