Theology in the 1960s
No question about it: there was some pretty wild stuff happening in German theology back in the 1960s. This morning I was thumbing through Dietrich Ritschl’s 1967 book, Memory and Hope: An Inquiry Concerning the Presence of Christ. It’s not a bad book actually, but you have to feel sorry for Ritschl when he makes the casual remark in his preface: “My manuscript was almost completed when two important new works came to my attention: Jürgen Moltmann’s Theology of Hope and Eberhard Jüngel’s God’s Being Is in Becoming.”
A bit like completing your definitive study on contemporary Irish literature, just as James Joyce publishes Ulysses.
Or like writing a thesis on Paul when you know N.T. Wright's monster-of-a-book on the subject is just around the corner...
Dangnabbit, get it done already!
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