Ruether, Rosemary Radford

The Radical Kingdom : The Western Experience of Messianic Hope / Rosemary Radford Ruether - New York, NY : Harper & Row, 1970 - viii, 304 p. ; 22 cm.

Introduction: The theology of revolution and social change: basic motifs -- Part I: Historical movements: Christian and secular -- The radicals of the Reformation and the Puritan revolution -- The Enlightenment, liberalism and the French revolution -- Utopianism: Christian and socialist -- Christian socialism and the social gospel -- Marx: the secular apocalypse -- Part II: Theological reflections on modern society -- Crisis theology and the attack on liberalism -- The mood of the resistance: rebel against God -- Secular theology: man, history and the Church -- Post-Christendom and the death of God -- Christian-Marxist dialogue -- The theology of hope -- Part III: Contemporary movements -- The American apocalypse -- The American youth movement from sit-in to be-in -- The New Left: revolutionaries after the fall of the revolution -- Conclusion: Man as revolution.


Revolutions—Religious aspects—Christianity.Messianism.Christian sociology.

BT738.3 / .R8 1970