Word: gogarten
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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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...