Fortress Introduction to Contemporary Theologies

Ed. LeRoy Miller, Stanley James Grenz

Fortress Press, Aug 1, 1998 - Religion - 246 pages

A reader-friendly, basic introduction that maps the central ideas of the major theologians of the twentieth century, easily accessible to both the theological student and the inquiring lay reader.

Contents

• Back to the Basics Karl Barth: 1
• The Liberal Background: 2
• The Bombshell Book: 4
• The Kierkegaard Connection: 6
• The Bible and the Newspaper: 9
• God Christ and Election: 11
• NeoOrthodoxy and Other Labels: 14
• Barth vs Brunner: 16
• The Fallout: 21
• Christian Realism Reinhold and H Richard Niebuhr: 24
• American NeoOrthodoxy: 25
• Sin the Empirical Doctrine: 27
• Love and Justice: 29
• Telos vs Finis: 31
• The Niebuhr Prayer: 33
• Jesus Christ and Mythology Rudolf Bultmann: 35
• The New Testament: 36
• Demythologization: 40
• The Heidegger Connection: 43
• An Existentialist Christology: 45
• Bultmann vs Cullmann: 47
• Other Responses: 51
• The God Above God Paul Tillich: 55
• The Method of Correlation: 56
• The Ground of Being: 58
• Christ the New Being: 61
• The Protestant Principle: 62
• Faith and Symbols: 63
• The Problem of Faith and History: 65
• Religionless Christianity Dietrich Bonhoeffer: 69
• Cox and Secular Theology: 70
• God of the Gaps: 72
• Religionless Christianity: 74
• A Man for Others: 75
• A Theological Legacy?: 77
• The Death of God William Hamilton and Thomas J J Altizer: 79
• Variations on a Theme: 80
• The Nietzsche Connection: 81
• Hamiltons Angle: 82
• Altizers Angle: 84
• God is Dead is Dead: 85
• Theology in Process John B Cobb Jr: 87
• A Theologian in Process: 88
• The Process View of Reality: 91
• Cobbs Process Theology: 95
• The Process Christ and Our Human Future: 96
• A Problematic Vision?: 100
• Hope in the Midst of Suffering Jürgen Moltmann: 103
• From Hope to Theology: 104
• A HopeFilled Theology: 107
• The Philosophical Foundation: 109
• Hope and Promise: 110
• The Suffering God of Hope: 113
• Hope or Process?: 116
• The Trinitarian History of the World: 118
• Hope in the Midst of Suffering: 120
• A Dependent God?: 122
• Reason and Hope Wolfhart Pannenberg: 124
• The Making of a Theologian: 125
• The Quest for a Reasonable Faith: 127
• Reasonable Hope and Hopeful Reasoning: 130
• Theology as the Study of God: 131
• The Triune God: 133
• The Christological Focus: 134
• The Centrality of the Spirit: 136
• A Theology for the Church: 139
• A Relevant Theology?: 140
• Liberating Praxis Gustavo Gutiérrez: 142
• The Struggles of an Activist Theologian: 143
• The Precursors of Liberation Theology: 145
• Theology as Contextual: 147
• A Theology of the Poor: 149
• The Marxist Connection: 150
• Theology as Critical Reflection on Praxis: 153
• Salvation as Liberation: 154
• A Theology for All Seasons?: 156
• Theology of Womens Experience Rosemary Radford Ruether: 159
• The Journey to Feminist Theology: 160
• A Theology of and for Women: 162
• The Patriarchal Past: 164
• Recovering Womens Lost Memory: 166
• Reconstructing the Vision: 168
• But Is It Christian?: 174
• Global Theology John Hick: 177
• Whats the Problem?: 178
• Hicks Pluralist Hypothesis: 181
• One God Many Faces: 185
• Hick vs the Bible: 187
• Questions Doubts and Resistance: 189
• Vatican II: 192
• Anonymous Christians?: 194
• Intolerance or Arrogance?: 198
• Theology in a Postliberal Age George Lindbeck: 200
• From Liberalism to Postliberalism: 201
• From Medievalist to Postliberal: 204
• The Move to Narrative: 206
• The Ethicists Approach to Narrative: 208
• Doctrine the Rules of the Community: 210
• But Is It Sufficient?: 215
• Notes: 217
• Index: 242

About the author

Ed. L. Miller is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies and a member of the Theology Forum of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Stanley J. Grenz is Professor of Theology and Ethics at Carey/Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fortress Introduction to Contemporary Theologies
• Editors: Ed. LeRoy Miller, Stanley James Grenz
• Publisher: Fortress Press, 1998
• ISBN: 145141840X, 9781451418408
• Length: 246 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / General