Title:
I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing, Radical Religion
Creator:
Richard L. York
Subject:
Berkeley Free Church (Berkeley, Calif.)
Radical Religion
Non-institutional churches--California--Berkeley (Calif.)
Interdenominational cooperation--California--Berkeley (Calif.)
Church renewal
Description:
Richard York provides thoughts on the experience of the Free Church in "I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing", Radical Religion,
Vol 1 (1), pp 23-25. He concludes, "What we are to be developing is not more spiritual politics, but rather political spirituality,
and there is no room in that for media-freakery, grandiose rhetoric, personality cult, undisciplined yipping, nor even for
defeat." The journal Radical Religion represented a continuation of the publications side of the Free Church. Revisiting
the street ministry aspect of the Free Church, Robert Bellah wrote, "A group like the Berkeley Free church, which began in
1967 as a ministry to hippies and street people and became more and more political in the years that followed, tried to maintain
a religious presence in the midst of the most militant Left but was itself pulled down in the ultimate collapse. Translating
religion finally into nothing but politics, it lost its raison d'etre and, incidentally, its community support and funding."
("The New Consciousness and the Berkeley New Left," In Charles Y. Glock and Robert N. Bellah, The New Consciousness. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1976. p 85.)
Publisher:
Graduate Theological Union;
Contributor:
York, Richard L.;
Date:
1973
Winter 1973
Type:
text;
Format:
Journal Article, pp 23-25; 7 x 10 in. (17.8 x 25.4 cm)
Identifier:
GTU_102
GTU 89-5-016;
Language:
English
Coverage:
Berkeley (Calif.);
Rights:
Copyrighted;
Reprinted with permission of Radical Religion Collective.
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I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing, Radical Religion