2009/04/20 by Mary E. Coleman · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Religion, Theology, and Education #Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity #Literature and Cultural Memory #Scholarship #German #Philosophy #Focus (optics) #Poetry #Theology #Art #Literature #Political science #Law #Linguistics
paper · doi:10.1002/9781118427170.ch74
openalex publication_date 2009/04/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/25
Dorothee Sölle was a popular theological writer in the best sense. Her books were, for the most part, brief, readable, and not over-laden with scholarly apparatus. Dorothee Sölle was the author of more than 20 books, many articles, and much poetry during her 40-year career. Although many of them were clearly informed by her scholarship, for the most part they failed to conform to the expectations of the German academy and as such were devalued. Her first book was published in 1965 and her final book in 1999. The titles give a clear sense of the trajectory of her concerns. Dorothee Sölle's theology was initially deeply christocentric. This aspect was to lessen in time as she shifted her focus to a more theocentric discourse. To Sölle a real theology needed to be a useful theology - a political theology.