Author: Trevor Greenfield

Trevor Greenfield concludes his radical theology series on non-realism, arguing that God-talk is human language but that imagination may still reflect a reality beyond itself.

Trevor Greenfield surveys non-realist writers associated with Sea of Faith, including Anthony Freeman, Stephen Mitchell and David Hart, and notes its poets and historians.

Trevor Greenfield summarises Don Cupitt’s non-realism: his case against objective theism, the internalising of God as a spiritual ideal, solar ethics, and criticisms of his position.

Trevor Greenfield examines Robinson’s Honest to God, its shift from height to depth in God-language and rejection of proofs of God, as the basis of the non-realist theologies that followed.

Trevor Greenfield surveys the American Death of God theologians of the 1960s: Vahanian, Van Buren, Cox and Altizer, and their different accounts of God’s death as cultural, linguistic or historical.

Trevor Greenfield sketches how Barth, Bonhoeffer, Bultmann and Tillich each led toward radical theology and a subjective, religionless Christianity in which God awaits creation rather than discovery.

Trevor Greenfield outlines Kierkegaard’s three life stages, his attack on the established Church and his view of faith as subjective and passionate, in a series on radical theology.