A New Handbook of Christian Theologians

by Musser, Donald W.; Price, Joseph L.

• ISBN13: 9780687278039
• ISBN10: 0687278031
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: Abingdon Pr

Summary

In recent years, the flow of Christian theology has been channeled in diverse streams represented by such trends and movements as black theology, liberation theology, feminist theology, and womanist theology. To survey this abundance and diversity of current Christian theology, this book examines the theologies of representative theologians. Particularly to help students navigate the sea of information, the editors have identified various routes for reading, and have traced several threads or issues common to many of the essays, thus demarcating such recurrent concerns as the ways in which the theologians consider the sources and goals for theology, their variant assumptions and conclusions about the nature of God, their divergent approaches to understanding the person and purpose of the Christ, and their distinct expectations for the destiny of history and faith.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Routes for Reading	p. 11
Thomas J. J. Altizer	p. 15
Asian Theologians	p. 22
Karl Barth	p. 49
Nicholas Berdyaev	p. 60
Donald G. Bloesch	p. 67
Leonardo Boff	p. 74
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	p. 85
Emil Brunner	p. 99
John B. Cobb, Jr.	p. 106
James Hal Cone	p. 118
Mary Daly	p. 127
Avery Dulles	p. 135
Gerhard Ebeling	p. 142
Hans W. Frei	p. 151
Langdon Gilkey	p. 158
David Ray Griffin	p. 171
James M. Gustafson	p. 178
Gustavo Gutierrez	p. 189
Charles Hartshorne	p. 200
Carl F. H. Henry	p. 214
John Harwood Hick	p. 221
Peter C. Hodgson	p. 229
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz	p. 236
Eberhard Jungel	p. 244
Gordon D. Kaufman	p. 253
Hans Kung	p. 261
George Lindbeck	p. 271
Sallie McFague	p. 278
Thomas Merton	p. 287
John Meyendorff	p. 297
Jurgen Moltmann	p. 304
Robert Cummings Neville	p. 317
H. Richard Niebuhr	p. 324
Reinhold Niebuhr	p. 331
Thomas C. Oden	p. 340
Schubert M. Ogden	p. 346
Raymond (Raimundo) Panikkar	p. 355
Wolfhart Pannenberg	p. 363
Karl Rahner	p. 375
Paul Ricoeur	p. 387
Rosemary Radford Ruether	p. 399
Edward Schillebeeckx	p. 411
Juan Luis Segundo	p. 419
Jon Sobrino	p. 427
Mark C. Taylor	p. 434
Howard Thurman	p. 440
Paul Tillich	p. 449
Thomas F. Torrance	p. 460
David Tracy	p. 468
Desmond Tutu	p. 479
Paul M. van Buren	p. 489
Hans Urs von Balthasar	p. 496
Cornel West	p. 505
Womanist Theologians	p. 513
Notes on the Contributors	p. 520
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