Radical Theology and the Reorganization of the US-American Religious System

In his article "Radical Theology and the Reorganization of the US-American Religious System," Philippe Codde uses the example of the highly popular movement of death-of-God theology in the 1960s to demonstrate the wide applicability for cultural research of Itamar Even-Zohar's polysystem theory and to illustrate the validity of Even-Zohar's assertion that peripheral elements in any system can yet occasion a dramatic shift in the system's central repertoires. Although Richard Rubenstein's reality model never made it to the center of the US-American religious system, his radical theology did impel the more traditional theologians in the center of the system finally to grapple with the subject of the Holocaust. The paper is an excerpt from Philippe Codde, The Jewish American Novel. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2007. Philippe Codde, "Radical Theology and the Reorganization of the US-American Religious System" page 2 of 11 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 9.2 (2007):