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This chapter describes Dorothee Soelle’s theology as radical, political, feminist, and mystical. This radical trajectory included her role as the foremost female German theologian of her generation, the most prominent female death of God theologian, a first-world liberation theologian, and an activist in peace and justice movements in both Germany and abroad.
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Renate Wind, Dorothee Soelle, trans. N. Lukens and M. Rumscheidt (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012), 27.
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Thomas Altizer and William Hamilton, Radical Theology and the Death of God (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966), 115.
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Here I employ the term radical theology as the rejection of traditional theism and critical treatment of doctrinal authorities , such as scripture and tradition (Richard Grigg, Beyond the God Delusion [Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008], 4).
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Soelle’s death of God theology extrapolates lessons from the Holocaust similar to Jewish post-Holocaust author Richard Rubenstein —see Sarah Pinnock, “Holocaust, Mysticism, and Liberation after the Death of God,” in Resurrecting the Death of God, eds. D. Petersen and G. Zbaraschuk (Albany: SUNY Press, 2014), 91.
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H. M. Rumscheidt, “Dorothee Soelle,” in Engaging Bonhoeffer, ed. M. Kirkpatrick (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016), 172.
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Mario von der Ruhr, “Christianity and the Errors of Our Time,” in The Relevance of the Radical, eds. A. Roselle-Stone and L. Stone (New York: Continuum, 2010), 64.
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Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, trans. Emma Craufurd (London: Routledge), 103.
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Richard Rubenstein , After Auschwitz, 2nd ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), 250.
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Jeffrey Robbins , Radical Democracy and Political Theology (New York: Columbia, 2011), 1.
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Clayton Crockett, “The Death of God, Death, and Resurrection,” in Resurrecting the Death of God, eds. D. Petersen and G. Zbaraschuk (Albany: SUNY Press, 2014), 150.
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Pinnock, S. (2018). Dorothee Soelle. 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_22
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