To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (192005 ) 6/18/2012 1:56:40 PM From: JohnM Read Replies (1) | Respond to Very interesting commentary. So the organizers/founders of SNCC were themselves deep into philosophical existentialism which as you note was prevalent throughout college campuses as an intellectual approach or a competing world view of things (as opposed to mainstream Christianity). Not really as opposed to "mainstream" Christianity but in conjunction with. The on campus theology was heavily influenced by Kierkegaard, Tillich, and Bultmann, all of whom worked out of existentialism. So these were not oppositional thought patterns.But I still maintain the student protests themselves of the 60's were primarily driven by two things--the move for racial equality and the need to politically organize to oppose the VN War. And I'm simply asserting, since I'm too lazy to muscle up the material for an argument, that the social ethics underlying the racial equality movement on campuses I knew anything about came out of the churches and Y's and was largely remnants of the old social gospel theology.
