Word: buts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johannes Metz, a German Roman Catholic theologian-of-hope who is working with Moltmann on a new book of political theology, makes a similar assessment of the Christian impact on the world. "The secularity of the world, as we see it today in a globally heightened form, has fundamentally arisen...
Might not such theological concepts impel men toward social revolution? Indeed, yes. U.S. Theologian Richard Shaull says that only at the center of the revolution can we "perceive what God is doing." His fellow romanticist Rubem Alves, a 36-year-old Brazilian Protestant, thinks man must meet the liberating event...
Such a personal theology would naturally tend to blur the boundaries of denomination and discipline. It would lead creative theologians into increasing exploration not only into other faiths but also into other disciplines: anthropology, sociology, psychology-to say nothing of the physical sciences.
Whatever new or old doors theology enters, for many men the reality of God in the future may well remain as elusive as it has been in the past. For all of the hoping, God will still seem painfully far ahead; for all of the evidence at hand, the rumors...
* Little-known in the U.S. but highly respected in Germany for his multivolumed Principle of Hope, written in the 1940s while he lived in Philadelphia.