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Friedrich Gogarten, 80, professor emeritus of systematic theology at Göttingen University in West Germany and currently visiting professor at the Methodists' Perkins School of Theology in Dallas...
...those who have mastered his convoluted German prose, Gogarten is regarded as a pioneering, creative theologian to rank with Karl Earth, Rudolph Bultmann, Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. After World War I, when Earth published his monumental commentary on Romans, Gogarten was taking the same line in an equally slashing attack on theological liberalism called "Between the Times" - a title that Barth, Gogarten and other like-minded thinkers later used for a new theological journal in which they expounded the ideas of what came to be called neo-Orthodoxy. Even before Buber published his classic and Thou, Gogarten had worked...
Revolt & Relation. What most interests U.S. theologians in Gogarten's work is his ap proach to history and secularization - a theme he took up during the Nazi years, about the same time that Dietrich Bonhoeffer was also exploring the consequence for Christianity of what he called the "world come of age" with out God. Unlike Bonhoeffer, whose fragmentary thinking is contained in a handful of pris on letters, Gogarten worked out a full and coherent the ology of secularization in half a dozen postwar books, five of which are being translated into English. Just published...