Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...identify the sacred in the midst of the profane, attempting to build the Kingdom of God by transforming the organisms of the secular city. In sum, the new church will be a return to the Biblical notion of the "salt of the earth." Germany's great Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner argues that Christianity is already "in diaspora," as the triumphal mass church of Christendom's past evolves into...
...World Come of Age. But the greatest challenge to the churches-one that knows no national borders-is secularization. Dutch Theologian Albert van den Heuvel, head of the World Council of Churches' Youth Department, defines the term as "the process of ever-growing independence from any transcendent control." What it amounts to, in the blunt phrase of Friedrich Nietzsche, is "God is dead...
...Theologian van den Heuvel warns that there is no turning back from the reality of secularization. "The human mind has exegeted God away out of the open questions of existence, and man in growing up has more and more chased the various gods out of their positions of control of human affairs. Mankind will not go back to the Old Testament for governing principles of how the world was made, but we will go on to trace its physical mysteries with X rays and microscopes. The world in which we live is forever without a God who plays the role...
...seeker after Christ," says Anglican Theologian Harry Williams, "you preach a 4th century Christ, or a 16th century Christ, or a 19th century Christ, you are still giving him a stone instead of the living truth." For many churchmen, the Christ that must be preached to this century was defined by Bonhoeffer: "The man existing for others." The Jesus for now is not so much the Son of God but the Son of Man, not so much the risen Lord of Easter as the suffering servant who agonized in near despair on the Cross, who died that the world might...
There is nothing unBiblical in this conception of the Christ. After all, notes Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty, "when they asked Jesus what it was all about, he told the story of the Good Samaritan." St. Paul informed the church of Philippi that "Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant." According to Matthew, Jesus warned his disciples: "The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve." And he wished that the church follow...