Word: religionless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done it again. He has succeeded in taking another picture of the world scene-this time not Secular, but Sacred. Like Freud, he doesn't miss a thing going on in the field of view. Heavily influenced by Bonhoeffer in his Secular City, he presented a view of "religionless religion" which both encapsulated the disparate commentaries of theologians and sociologists, at the same time that it infuriated many in the same scenes. This time he mines several veins and comes up with another theological mother lode. The Divinity School on Francis Ave. will again pack them in to pay homage...
...modern theological thought, Harvey G. Cox, associate professor of Church and Society in the Divinity School said yesterday, because of his affirmative view of the secular elements of society. He tantalizes present-day theologians because he died before he was able to explain some of his phrases, such as "religionless Christianity...
...lecture the Archbishop, who was once a professor of Divinity at Durham University, examined three species of the "death of God talk." First he attacked the notion that God--primarily concerned with religion and piety--is dead. "No such God ever existed," Archbishop Ramsey declared. "Religionless Christianity is now the spiritual reality...
...most theological conferences these days, shoptalk is likely to center on such modern themes as "the death of God," Tillich's "ultimate concern, " Bonhoeffer's "religionless" Christianity. Last week, in the spartan setting of Nashville's tiny Free Will Baptist Bible College, more than 200 Protestant thinkers met for clear, serious and certain discussions about some traditional concepts: grace, sin, faith and, above all, the inerrancy of the Bible...
...Ehrenretter is Evangelical Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the brilliant poet-theologian who conducted an underground divinity school for the Hitler-hating "Confessing Church," and was killed at a Bavarian prison shortly before its liberation by American troops. But Bonhoeffer's vivid, prophetic writing-outlining his dream of a "religionless Christianity" that would speak afresh to the modern secular world-is probably more important to young seminarians as a consequence of martyrdom...