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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.
List of contents
Series Foreword
Introduction: The Holocaust and the Death of God: Encounter or Reencounter? by Stephen R. Haynes and John K. Roth
The Death of God "Movement" Is BornToward a Hidden God by Time, April 8, 1966
The Death of God and the Holocaust--Reconsidering the EncounterThe Holocaust and the Theology of the Death of God by Thomas J. J. Altizer
Genocide and the Death of God by William Hamilton
From the Secular to the Scriptural Gospel by Paul M. van Buren
Radical Theology and the Holocaust by Richard L. Rubenstein
After the Holocaust: The Death of God and the Profaning of Texts by Edith Wyschogrod
The Holocaust and the Death of God: A Response to Altizer, Hamilton, and Rubenstein by Thomas Idinopulos
The Holocaust, Genocide, and Radical Theology: An Assessment of the Death of God Movement by John K. Roth
The Death of God and the Holocaust: Analyzing the EncounterThe Death of God Movement and 20th Century Protestant Theology by John J. Carey
The Death of God: An African American Perspective by Hubert G. Locke
The Death of History and the Life of Akeda: Voices from the War by Gershon Greenberg
Christians and Pharisees: Jewish Responses to Radical Theology by Timothy A. Bennett and Rochelle L. Millen
Epilogue by John K. Roth and Stephen R. Hayes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
STEPHEN R. HAYNES is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rhodes College, Memphis. He is author of Reluctant Witnesses: Jews and the Christian Imagination (1995) and Prospects for Post-Holocaust Theology (1991), and coeditor of To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to Biblical Criticisms and Their Application (1993). He has also published articles in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Christian-Jewish Relations, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, and Journal of Literature and Theology.John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College, where he taught from 1966 through 2006. His numerous books include Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide (Palgrave Macmillan), Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau (Palgrave Macmillan), and The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (Oxford University Press). In 1988, Roth was named U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
