Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evangelical Protestants urge personal commitment to Christ, plus social responsibility, at Minneapolis congress...
...Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The problematic relationship between the sacred and secular is described in Harvey Cox's influential 1965 book The Secular City as "the loosing of the world from religious and quasi-religious understandings of itself, the breaking of all myths and supernatural symbols." If anywhere, Christ might only be sought through humanistic action in the world...
...Christian radical" theologians like Thomas Altizer and William Hamilton, God was dead, and the sacred with him. Nietzsche had coined the phrase in the 19th century, but it was Altizer, the Christian atheist, who gave it new currency. The God of the Bible had died in Jesus Christ, he said, and lived on in the world only in man. There was not much more to say. It was the task of others to effect a resurrection...
...stating, in effect, that God is alive and well in history. German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg cleared the stage for this movement by challenging Biblical Demythologizer Rudolph Bultmann, the dominant voice in postwar German theology. Pannenberg dramatically asserted God's past action in history by reaffirming that Christ actually rose from the dead, and established his future activity by making the eschaton ("last things") once again real and important: Judgment and Christ's Second Coming were the proper endpoint of history. But it remained for Jürgen Moltmann, a young Reformed theologian in Germany, to articulate the future...
Moltmann makes his point clear from the very beginning of his work. The Theology of Hope. "Christian faith strains after the promises of the universal future of Christ. There is only one real problem in Christian theology: the problem of the future." As Moltmann sees it, the churches have neglected that central point of Christianity almost completely, looking wistfully back, instead, toward a vanished primordial paradise. "The Church lives on memories," Moltmann writes in a second book, Religion, Revolution, and the Future, "the world on hope...