A Map of Twentieth-Century Theology: Readings from Karl Barth to Radical Pluralism

by Braaten, Carl E.

• ISBN13: 9780800626860
• ISBN10: 0800626869
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

Indispensable to understanding the advent and import of today's radically pluralistic scene, this unique historical anthology presents 37 signal readings from key theologians of this century. Outstanding interpreters of these figures and their generative ideas, Braaten and Jenson offer solid and sympathetic introductions and a clear scheme, a roadmap that makes sense of the fundamental and formative questions, concerns, "schools", and movements that have animated the theological enterprise in this explosive century, from 1900 right up to the threshold of contemporary currents.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
The Background of Twentieth-Century Theology
PART ONE DIALECTICAL THEOLOGY AND ITS DESCENDANTS	13	(194)
The Crisis in Theology
Editors' Introduction	15	(3)
The Quest of the Historical Jesus	18	(3)
Albert Schweitzer
The Strange New World within the Bible	21	(10)
Karl Barth
The Absoluteness of Christianity	31	(8)
Ernst Troeltsch
Dialectical Theology	39	(168)
Editors' Introduction
The Epistle to the Romans	42	(8)
Karl Barth
The Question of ``Dialectical'' Theology	50	(4)
Rudolf Bultmann
Nature and Grace	54	(11)
Emil Brunner
New Systematics
Editors' Introduction	62	(3)
Church Dogmatics	65	(15)
Karl Barth
Systematic Theology	80	(18)
Paul Tillich
Theologies of Secularization
Editors' Introduction	94	(4)
Letters to Eberhard Bethge	98	(9)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Secularization and Christian Faith	107	(12)
Friedrich Gogarten
The New Hermeneutics
Editors' Introduction	115	(4)
The Problem of Hermeneutics	119	(11)
Rudolf Bultmann
The Word of God and Hermeneutics	130	(8)
Gerhard Ebeling
The Essence of the ``Language Event'' and Christology	138	(13)
Ernst Fuchs
Eschatological Theology
Editors' Introduction	147	(4)
Revelation as History	151	(9)
Wolfhart Pannenberg
Theology of Hope	160	(8)
Jurgen Moltmann
The Church and the World in Light of ``Political Theology''	168	(14)
Johannes Metz
Trinitarian Theology
Editors' Introduction	179	(3)
The Doctrine of the Trinity	182	(8)
Karl Barth
The Trinity	190	(6)
Karl Rahner
The Doctrine of the Trinity	196	(11)
Eberhard Jungel
PART TWO ALTERNATIVE PARADIGMS IN THEOLOGY	207	(176)
Theology of Religions
Editors' Introduction	209	(4)
The Significance of the History of Religions for the Systematic Theologian	213	(9)
Paul Tillich
Christian Attitudes toward Non-Christian Religions	222	(9)
Hendrik Kraemer
Christianity and the Non-Christian Religions	231	(21)
Karl Rahner
Confessional Theologies
Editors' Introduction	247	(5)
The Revelation of God	252	(10)
Werner Elert
Agape and Christianity	262	(6)
Anders Nygren
The Person of Christ	268	(13)
William Temple
Transcendental Thomism
Editors' Introduction	276	(5)
Method in Theology	281	(8)
Bernard J. F. Lonergan
Knowledge of God	289	(16)
Karl Rahner
Theology and Language
Editors' Introduction	300	(5)
The University Discussion	305	(8)
Antony Flew
R. M. Hare
Basil Mitchell
Religious Language	313	(6)
Ian T. Ramsey
Myth and Symbol	319	(13)
Paul Ricoeur
Process Theology
Editors' Introduction	328	(4)
Evolution and the Christian Future	332	(8)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
God and the World	340	(9)
Alfred North Whitehead
The Divine Self-Creation	349	(7)
Charles Hartshorne
Neo-Protestantism in America
Editors' Introduction	352	(4)
Theology and the Social Gospel	356	(5)
Walter Rauschenbusch
Revelation and Radical Monotheism	361	(6)
H. Richard Niebuhr
Human Nature and Politics	367	(10)
Reinhold Niebuhr
God, Revelation and Authority	377	(6)
Carl F. H. Henry
Acknowledgments	383	(4)
Index	387