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...theology that often sounds like an amalgam of intellectual strains from the best current Protestant thinking. He thought of God as "overtruth" and "the overwisdom"-phrases that would not be out of place in the Systematic Theology of Paul Tillich.* In the manner of a Biblical demythologist like Rudolf Bultmann, he regarded Adam as the idea of man,rather than as a historical human being, and interpreted the Last Judgment not as a physical return to earth by Christ but as each man's own inner examination of conscience...
Protestant Christianity throughout the world once looked automatically to Germany for the newest direction in theology. Not so any more, for "the science of things divine" is international in scope, ecumenical in spirit. The giants who still dominate Protestant thinking-Karl Earth, Paul Tillich, Rudolf Bultmann-all came to prominence in Germany after World War I, but among the most promising of their successors are a number of men under 45 who have been educated in U.S. divinity schools...
...SCHUBERT OGDEN, 34, associate professor of philosophical theology at Southern Methodist University. Born in Cincinnati and a graduate of S.M.U.'s Perkins School of Theology, Ogden is one of the nation's most persuasive interpreters of Rudolf Bultmann's "demythologized" Christianity (TIME, Sept. 24, 1956). Methodist Ogden was denounced as an "antichrist"' by Texas fundamentalists after his Bultmannian study, Christ Without Myth, was published last fall. Ogden insists that he is "a Christian only by being a modern man," and being modern to him means explaining religion in terms that are acceptable to contemporary scientific...
...theology of crisis" - labels that Barth rejects, since they scarcely define it at all. Essentially, Barth is a Christological theologian, whose uniquely modern thought centers around ancient realities: faith, the Bible, the church. He has a philosopher's knowledge of philosophy, but unlike such contemporaries as Tillich or Bultmann, Barth is wary of restating the dogmas of the church in nontraditional language. His thought is complex, but he nonetheless writes of doctrine in prose that is not far removed from that of the pulpit. Above all he writes of the mysterious history of Christ. Knowledge of God is knowledge...
...book's success, Barth accepted a chair in Reformed theology at the University of Gottingen in 1921. There, besides teaching, he helped to edit a new magazine that continued his onslaught on liberalism; among the contributors were such rising young theologians as Paul Tillich and Rudolf Bultmann...