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Every so often we host a symposia on a given topic. This is a time when we gather and publish essays on a certain book, theme, or person, and publish them as a collection. In the past, we have done symposia on Gollwitzer, XYZ Topic, and other things. To be the first to know about other symposia that we’re hosting in the future, follow us online:
In this symposium, we asked participants to read Dr. W. Travis McMaken’s biography on Helmut Gollwitzer and respond to it. We were thrilled that Dr. McMaken himself wanted to respond to the essays submitted.
My deepest thanks to the good folks at Theology Corner for producing this series of engagements with my work on Helmut Gollwitzer (Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer, hereafter OGLJ), and especially to the authors for devoting their time to me...
This piece is part of a series of responses to the book Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer by W. Travis McMaken. We will be posting five responses to the book as part of this series. Our fifth contribution is from Mitchell Mallary....
Rather than coddling his hearers in a November 16, 1938 sermon in Berlin, he told them what they needed to hear in the days following the barbarity of the Kristallnacht pogroms: “God is disgusted at the very sight of you.” We might say that Gollwitzer was doing theology “in and for the church,” but he certainly had a unique approach to doing so.
This piece is part of a series of responses to the book Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer by W. Travis McMaken. We will be posting five responses to the book as part of this series. Our third contribution is from J. Scott Jackson....
Though reading one more twentieth-century German theologian will not be the decisive factor in this decisive moment, there are at least three good reasons to agree with McMaken that Gollwitzer can offer an important intervention for us now.
This piece is part of a series of responses to the book Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer by W. Travis McMaken. We will be posting five responses to the book as part of this series. Our first contribution is from Rev. Lauren R. E....
I actually have no idea what this one was about, but we ought to include some kind of description about the general topic of the symposium here.
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W. Travis McMaken on Helmut Gollwitzer and revolution.
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