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A Change of Heart - A Personal and Theological Memoir (Paperback)
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A Change of Heart - A Personal and Theological Memoir (Paperback)
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Preaching's Best Books for Preachers Best Theological Memoir from
Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore How did one of the
twentieth century's most celebrated liberals have such a dramatic
change of heart? After growing up in the heart of rural Methodism
in Oklahoma, Thomas Oden found Marx, Nietzsche and Freud storming
into his imagination. He joined the post-World War II pacifist
movement and became enamored with every aspect of the 1950s'
ecumenical Student Christian Movement. Ten years before America's
entry into the Vietnam war he admired Ho Chi Min as an agrarian
patriot. For Oden, every turn was a left turn. At Yale he earned
his PhD under H. Richard Niebuhr and later met with some of the
most formidable minds of the era-enjoying conversations with
Gadamer, Bultmann and Pannenberg as well as a lengthy discussion
with Karl Barth at a makeshift office in his hospital room. While
traveling with his family through Turkey, Syria and Israel, he
attended Vatican II as an observer and got his first taste of
ancient Christianity. And slowly, he stopped making left turns.
Oden's enthusiasms for pacifism, ecumenism and the interface
between theology and psychotherapy were ambushed by varied shapes
of reality. Yet it was a challenge from a Jewish scholar, his
friend and mentor Will Herberg, that precipitated his most dramatic
turn-back to the great minds of ancient Christianity. Later a
meeting with then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Benedict XVI)
planted the seeds for what became Oden's highly influential Ancient
Christian Commentary on Scripture. This fascinating memoir walks us
through not only his personal history but some of the most
memorable chapters in twentieth-century theology.
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