The Death of God Movement and the Holocaust
Radical Theology Encounters the Shoah
Series: Contributions to the Study of Religion: Christianity and the Holocaust—Core Issues
Stephen R. Haynes, ed., John K. Roth, ed.
0-313-30365-7/978-0-313-30365-4
Description
The Death of God theologians represented one of the most influential religious movements that emerged of the 1960s, a decade in which the discipline of theology underwent revolutionary change. Although they were from different traditions, utilized varied methods of analysis, and focused on culture in distinctive ways, the four religious thinkers who sparked radical theology—Thomas Altizer, William Hamilton, Richard Rubenstein, and Paul Van Buren—all considered the Holocaust as one of the main challenges to the Christian faith. Thirty years later, a symposium organized by the American Academy of Religion revisited the Death of God movement by asking these four radical theologians to reflect on how awareness of the Holocaust affected their thinking, not only in the 1960s but also in the 1990s. This edited volume brings together their essays, along with responses by other noted scholars who offer critical commentary on the movement's impact, legacy, and relationship to the Holocaust.
About the Author
STEPHEN R. HAYNES is Albert B. Curry Chair of Religious Studies at Rhodes College, where he has taught since 1989. He is founder and co-chair of the American Academy of Religion's Religion, Holocaust and Genocide Group, is a member of the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, and serves as Director of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College. He has published several books, including
Holocaust Education and the Church-Related College
(Greenwood, 1997).
JOHN K. ROTH is the Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, where he has taught since 1966. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than 25 books, including
Private Needs, Public Selves: Talk about Religion in America
(1997) and
From the Unthinkable to the Unavoidable: American Christian and Jewish Scholars Encounter the Holocaust
(edited with Carol Rittner, Greenwood, 1997).
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