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The introduction to The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology describes the importance of this book in the study of radical theology. It explains the editors’ decision to organize the book in three sections: introductory and background material, major figures in radical theology, and topics of interest to radical theology. This book also takes care to investigate some forgotten figures and novel topics in radical theological history. The editors also acknowledge the racism and elitism in the tradition and its neoliberalization in recent years. They describe these developments as a mistake and emphasize radical theology’s potential.
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Thomas Altizer, ed., Toward a New Christianity (New York: Harcourt, 1967).
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Michael Grimshaw, “Did God Die in the Christian Century?”, Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory 6.3 (2005): 7–23.
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As argued, for example, by Ray Waddle, “Megachurches arise from Death-of-God Theology’s Ashes,” The Tennessean (2. April 2005), 2B.
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Paul Tillich, The Irrelevance and Relevance of the Christian Message (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim), 1996.
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Billy Graham, “Is God Dead?”, The Godless Christians, ed. V. Ball (Atlanta: Pendulum, 1966): 91–96.
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Rosemary Radford Ruether, “The Death of God Revisited,” Resurrecting the Death of God, eds. D. Peterson and G. Zbaraschuk (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2014), 23–41.
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In our estimation, this argument is made much more forcefully—without being dismissive—by Marcella Althaus-Reid in From Feminist Theology to Indecent Theology (London: SCM, 2004).
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Thomas Altizer, review of Tomorrow’s Child by R. Alves, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 42.2 (1974), 376.
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Rodkey, C.D., Miller, J.E. (2018). Introduction. In: Rodkey, C., Miller, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96595-6_1
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