Death of God Movement and the Holocaust

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.

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 Born
Toward a Hidden God by Time, April 8, 1966
The Death of God and the Holocaust--Reconsidering the Encounter
The 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 Encounter
The 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