Word: hamilton
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...these theologians are trying to redefine other tenets of a Christianity without a Creator. Something of the variety and scope of the movement can be judged from the work of the four best-known advocates of a death-of-God theology: Altizer, Paul van Buren of Temple University, William Hamilton of Colgate Rochester Divinity School, and Gabriel Vahanian of Syracuse University...
...Place to Be." In an essay called Thursday's Child, William Hamilton of Colgate Rochester argues that the theologian today has neither faith nor hope; only love is left to him. Perhaps the most ethics-minded of these thinkers, Hamilton, 41, concludes that awareness of God's death summons man all the more to follow Jesus as the exemplar and paradigm of conduct- which, for today, means total commitment to the love and service of his fellow...
...Hamilton defines Christ not as a person or an object but as "a place to be" -and the place of Christ, he asserts, is in the midst of the Negro's struggle for equality, in the emerging forms of technological society, in the arts and sciences of the secular world. "In the time of the death of God, we have a place to be," he says. "It is not before an altar; it is in the world, in the city, with both the needy neighbor and the enemy...
Only God Knows God. While Altizer, Van Buren and Hamilton proclaim the death of God with prophetic force, Syracuse's Associate Professor Gabriel Vahanian, 38, is urbanely content to explain why the funeral is necessary. More conservative than the others, Vahanian is a sociologist of religion and a cultural historian with a primary interest in analyzing man's perception of God. He argues that God, if there is one, is known to man only in terms of man's own culture, and thus is basically an idol: "Theologically speaking, any concept of God can only...
...direction of their thought leads them to feel greater sympathy for Camus than for clergymen of their own churches. Nonetheless, they argue that God's disappearance from human history cannot be denied, and that there is nothing wrong with a Christian accepting this as a fact. As Hamilton asks, in his book The New Essence of Christianity: "If Jesus can wonder about being forsaken by God, are we to be blamed if we wonder...