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...talk sense about God to a secular, science-minded, doubt-filled world. The drastic solution of the post-Christian followers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is to say that the traditional idea of God is dead and turn to other concerns. Another way, favored by Biblical Scholar Rudolf Bultmann and his disciples, is to see the meaning of God in existential terms. But many U.S. Protestant theologians find it impossible to live without God or to preach him existentially, and the process theologians are trying another way based on the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and his best-known disciple, Charles Hartshorne...
...stop talking about 'God' for a while," says Baptist Harvey Cox, an ordained Protestant minister and an assistant professor at Andover Newton Theological School. One of the nation's most radical and respected young Christian thinkers, Cox, 35, tries to go well beyond existentialism and Bultmann-like "demythologizing" in order to program theology for what he believes is a new era in man's history: the age of urban secularization...
...theological task is re-translation of traditional concepts into contemporary accents, and that to toss doctrine overboard is to betray the faith. Yet an influential minority of Christian thinkers is willing to do just that. It is an unarguable axiom for the Marburg Disciples of Germany's Rudolf Bultmann that Christianity must de-mythologize-that is, translate the essential elements of the New Testament proclamation into terms that relate to man's existential conflict today, while doing away with nonessentials as so much historical ballast. Advocates of Paul Tillich's method of correlation, which attempts to find...
...theology. The servant rebelled during the 17th century, and most of the time since then, the two disciplines have gone their separate, sometimes hostile ways. But during this century, philosophy and theology have been groping toward a new and nonsubservient dialogue. The German disciples of Biblical Theologian Rudolf Bultmann found in existentialism a way to rephrase the eternal Christian message. In Britain and the U.S., other theologians are enthusiastically exploring a different direction-applying the philosophic method known as linguistic analysis to the clarification of religious thought...
...famous Epistle to the Romans of 1921, which rejected the rationalist, antiquarian approach of Protestant liberalism to scriptural texts and dramatically hurled at the church a modern interpretation of Paul that tried to capture the spirit instead of the letter of his message. A more immediate source is Bultmann's demand that the Bible must be demythologized-that is, stripped of its fictional heaven-above, hell-below framework, and its message restated in ideas that make sense...