The The Western Experience of Messianic Hope Ruether, Rosemary Radford creator text xx New York, NY Harper & Row 1970 9999 monographic und eng

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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. Rosemary Radford Ruether Revolutions—Religious aspects—Christianity.Messianism.Christian sociology BT738.3 .R8 1970 240614