20th Century Theology: God & the World in a Transitional Age (Grenz & Olsen)

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Grenz, Stanley & Olson, Roger

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9780830815258

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InterVarsity Press

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393

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Paperback

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"Clearly written. Informative. Helpful. . . . This book covers a great deal of material and with surprising detail and sympathetic understanding." — J. I. Packer, Regent College

Stanley Grenz and Roger Olson offer in this text a sympathetic introduction to twentieth-century theology and a critical survey of its significant thinkers and movements. Of particular interest is their attempt to show how twentieth-century theology has moved back and forth between two basic concepts: God's immanence and God's transcendence. Their survey profiles such towering figures in contemporary theology as Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Jurgen Moltmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg. It critiques significant movements like neo-orthodoxy, process theology, liberation theology and theology of hope. And it assesses recent developments in feminist theology, black theology, new Catholic theology, narrative theology and evangelical theology. An indispensable handbook for anybody interested in today's theological landscape.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION: Transcendence and Immanence and Modern Theological History

1. THE ENLIGHTENMENT: The Shattering of the Classical Balance

2. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF TRANSCENDENCE: Immanence in Nineteenth-Century Theology
Immanuel Kant
G. W. F. Hegel
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Albrecht Ritschl and Classical Liberal Theology

3. THE REVOLT AGAINST IMMANENCE: Transcendence in Neo-orthodoxy
Karl Barth
Emil Brunner
Rudolf Bultmann
Reinhold Niebuhr

4. THE DEEPENING OF IMMANENCE: Reformulations of the Liberal Tradition
Paul Tillich
Process Theology

5. IMMANENCE WITHIN THE SECULAR: The Radical Movement
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Secular Theology

6. THE TRANSCENDENCE OF THE FUTURE: The Theology of Hope
Jürgen Moltmann
Wolfhart Pannenberg

7. THE RENEWAL OF IMMANENCE IN THE EXPERIENCE OF OPPRESSION: Liberation Theologies
Black Liberation Theology
Latin American Liberation Theology
Feminist Theology

8. THE TRANSCENDENCE OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT: The New Catholic Theology
Karl Rahner
Hans Küng

9. TRANSCENDENCE WITHIN THE STORY: Narrative Theology

10. REAFFIRMING THE BALANCE: Evangelical Theology Coming of Age
Carl F. H. Henry
Bernard Ramm

CONCLUSION: Past Contributions and Future Prospects in the Quest for a Theology of Transcendence and Immanence