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- As represented for example by:
- Smart , Ninian . 1968 . Secular Education and the Logic of Religion , Faber . Michael Grimmitt, What Can I Do in R.E.?, Mayhew‐McCrimmon, 19731, 19782.
- op. cit. 7 Italics in original.
- I am thinking principally of the work of Juan Luis Segundo, especially his The Liberation of Theology, Gill and Macmillan, 1977. I have also found the following especially illuminating:
- Boff , Leonardo . 1979 . Liberating Grace , Orbis Books .
- Boff , Leonardo . 1980 . Jesus Christ Liberator , SPCK .
- Gibellini , Rosino , ed. 1975 . Frontiers of Theology in Latin America , SCM Press .
- Sobrino , Jon . 1978 . Christology at the Crossroads: A Latin American Approach , SCM Press .
- 1977 . Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: an Inquiry into the Character of Earliest Christianity , 372f SCM Press .
- Clearly in an article of this length full evidence for these statements cannot be given. But cf. the works referred to in 4 above.
- Scrogg , Robin . 1980 . ‘The Sociological Interpretation of the New Testament: the Present State of Research’ . New Testament Studies , 26 : 175f and cf., e.g., Robin Gill, The Social Context of Theology, Mowbrays, 1975; Robin Gill, Theology and Social Structure, Mowbrays, 1977
- Routledge and Regan Paul, 1936
- cf. op. cit., ‘The Ideological Infiltration of Dogma’, pp. 40‐7.
- op. cit., pp. 102, 104; cf. also p. 116.
- Hughes , Gerald . 1978 . Authority in Morals , 11 – 16 . Heythrop Monographs . For a brief account of the exegetical and hermeneutic problems involved in trying to ‘read off moral prescriptions directly from the Bible cf.
- 1969 . ‘Revolution and Desacralisa‐tion’ . Concilium , 7 ( 5 ) : 73 – 8 . For example J. Smolik discerns three patterns of action advocated in the New Testament: (i) pre‐political; (ii) conservative; (iii) revolutionary; in
- Plamenatz , John . 1975 . Karl Marx's Philosophy of Man , 227 – 248 . Clarendon Press . esp. ch. ix ‘Religion’,
- op. cit. 167
- Hughes , Gerard . op. cit. For the argument that at the level of content there is no Christian ethic, cf. J. Fuchs, Human Values and Christianity, Gill and Macmillan, 1970; John Macquarrie, Three Issues in Ethics, SCM Press, 1970;
- Segundo . op. cit. 155 Italics in original.
- 1973 . Steps to an Ecology of Mind , Paladin .
- Segundo . op. cit. 120
- Segundo . op. cit. 178 Italics in original.
- Segundo . op. cit. 113
- 1972 . Method in Theology , xi Darton, Longman & Todd . Cf. also, Segundo, op. cit., pp. 300ff, 363