Theology In A Global Context

by Schwarz, Hans

• ISBN13: 9780802829863
• ISBN10: 0802829864
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-15
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Author Biography

Hans Schwarz is professor of Protestant theology and chair of the Institute of Protestant Theology at the University of Regensburg, Germany

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Stemming the Tide of the Enlightenment	1	(15)
Discerning the Limits of Rational Inquiry: Immanuel Kant	2	(5)
Religion as the Feeling of Absolute Dependence: Friedrich Schleiermacher	7	(8)
FOR FURTHER READING	15	(1)
2. Hegel's System and Its Branches	16	(40)
Hegel's Christian Synthesis of Reason and Revelation	16	(5)
The Left-Wing Hegelian Attack on Religion: David Friedrich Strauss and Bruno Bauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels	21	(14)
The Developmental Emphasis of Right-Wing Hegelians: Ferdinand Christian Baur, Alois Emanuel Biedermann	35	(5)
Mediation between Faith and Knowledge: Richard Rothe, Julius Müller, and Isaak August Dorner	40	(5)
Kierkegaard's Dialectic in Opposition to the System	45	(4)
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The First Philosopher of the American Spirit and America's Hegel	49	(3)
FOR FURTHER READING	52	(4)
3. A New Kind of Orthodoxy	56	(35)
A Conciliatory Christocentricity: Horace Bushnell	56	(4)
Protestant Catholicism: The Mercersburg Theology: Philip Schaff and John Nevin	60	(5)
The Scripture-Based Calvinist Confessionalism of Princeton Theology: Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, A.A. Hodge, B.B. Warfield	65	(5)
God's Love in Christ — the Key to Social Engagement: F.D. Maurice	70	(3)
The Dutch Struggle with Modernity	73	(6)
From Modernism to Confessionalism	73	(4)
A Biblical Radicalism: Hermann Friedrich Kohlbriigge	77	(2)
Returning to the Biblical Legacy in Germany	79	(8)
Scripture as the Norm: Johann Tobias Beck	79	(3)
Scripture, Confession, and Experience (the Erlangen School): Adolf von Harless, J.C.K. von Hofmann, Reinhold Frank	82	(5)
FOR FURTHER READING	87	(4)
4. Romanticism and the Pietistic Awakening	91	(27)
Romantic, Confessional Lutheranism: Claus Harms, Wilhelm Löhe, August Vilmar	91	(7)
Guarding Lutheran Confessional Identity: Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg	98	(2)
An Evangelical Passion for Christ and for Students: August Tholuck	100	(2)
Turning People to Christ: Charles Grandison Finney	102	(3)
A Christocentric Theology of the Heart: Samuel Taylor Coleridge	105	(3)
The Oxford Movement: John Keble, John Henry Newman, and E.B. Pusey	108	(7)
FOR FURTHER READING	115	(3)
5. Cultural Protestantism	118	(20)
The Legacy of Kant and of the Lutheran Reformation: Albrecht Ritschl	118	(6)
The Legacy of Schleiermacher: Wilhelm Herrmann	124	(4)
Regaining a Scholarly Foundation, or Cultural Protestantism at Its Height: Adolf von Harnack	128	(7)
Cultural Protestantism and Beyond: Martin Rade	135	(1)
FOR FURTHER READING	136	(2)
6. The Challenge of the Industrial Revolution	138	(47)
The Social Gospel Movement in America: Washington Gladden, Richard Ely, Walter Rauschenbusch	139	(8)
The English Response to Social Problems	147	(11)
Reaching Out to the Poor — the Evangelical Solution	147	(2)
Christian Socialism Phase 1: John M.F. Ludlow, F.D. Maurice, and Charles Kingsley	149	(2)
Christian Socialism Phase 2: Stewart Headlam and William Temple	151	(5)
William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army	156	(2)
The German Response to Social Problems	158	(10)
The Legacy of Pietism — Christian Home Mission: Johann Friedrich Oberlin, Theodor and Friederike Fliedner, Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Johann Hinrich Wichern	159	(5)
Christian Sociopolitical Involvement and the Evangelisch-Soziale Kongress: Friedrich Naumann and Adolf Stoecker	164	(4)
The Swiss Religious Socialists: Hermann Kutter and Leonhard Ragaz	168	(4)
From Reaction to Discernment: The Role of Roman Catholicism	172	(8)
The Papal Encyclicals	172	(3)
Addressing the Plight of the People: Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler, Adolph Kolping, Jacques Maritain, John Courtney Murray	175	(5)
FOR FURTHER READING	180	(5)
7. Stemming the Tide of Scientific Materialism	185	(47)
The Materialistic Mood in Germany: Ludwig Büchner, Carl Vogt, Jacob Moleschott, and Ludwig Feuerbach	187	(6)
The Challenge of Monistic Darwinism in Germany: David Friedrich Strauss, Ernst Haeckel, Christoph Luthardt, and Otto Zöckler	193	(12)
The British Controversy over Darwin	205	(4)
Darwinism, American Style	209	(19)
No Conflict between Science and Religion	209	(1)
Evolutionary Theory in a Theistic Gown	210	(7)
Asa Gray, the Theistic Interpreter of Darwin	210	(2)
John Fiske, the Interpreter of Spencer	212	(3)
Agassiz and Le Conte, a Cautious Reaction	215	(2)
From Fear to Embrace: Protestant Theology and Evolutionary Thought	217	(63)
The Fears of Charles Hodge	217	(3)
From Hesitancy to Enthusiasm: J. William Dawson, James McCosh, Henry Ward Beecher, and Lyman Abbott	220	(4)
Discerning the Mixed Blessing of Darwinism: William Graham Sumner, William James, and the Scopes Trial	224	(4)
FOR FURTHER READING	228	(4)
8. The Challenge of Religion	232	(32)
The Babel-Bible Controversy: Friedrich Delitzsch	233	(1)
The History of Religion School: Ernst Troeltsch and Rudolf Otto	234	(9)
The Critique and Reassessment of Positive Religion: Auguste Comte, James G. Frazer, and William James	243	(6)
Christianity among the World's Religions: Nathan Söderblom and Einar Billing	249	(4)
Motif Research and Beyond: The Lundensian School; Anders Nygren, Gustaf Aulén, Gustaf Wingren, and Knud E. Løgstrup	253	(6)
FOR FURTHER READING	259	(5)
9. The Battle for Jesus	264	(34)
The Life of Jesus Research and Its Initial Impasse: Johannes Weiss and Albert Schweitzer	264	(8)
Escaping from the Strictures of Historical Research: Martin Kähler and Rudolf Bultmann	272	(8)
The New Quest (James M. Robinson) and the Continued Quest	280	(11)
The Continued Quest in Germany: Joachim Jeremias and Ethelbert Stauffer	281	(2)
The Continued Quest in Scandinavia: Harald Riesenfeld and Birger Gerhardsson	283	(2)
The Continued Quest in Great Britain and the U.S.A.: Charles H. Dodd, Thomas W. Manson, Vincent Taylor, Norman Perrin, and Raymond E. Brown	285	(6)
A Third Quest for the Historical Jesus	291	(2)
FOR FURTHER READING	293	(5)
10. Neo-Reformation Theology	298	(28)
Returning to Theology's Own Task: Karl Barth	298	(10)
Controversial Collaborators: Rudolf Bultmann, Friedrich Gogarten, and Emil Brunner	308	(8)
From Continuation to Reversal: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John A.T. Robinson, and the Death-of-God Theologians	316	(7)
FOR FURTHER READING	323	(3)
11. Relating God and the World in North America	326	(54)
Empirical Theology: The Chicago School	327	(12)
The Sociohistorical Emphasis of Shailer Mathews and Shirley Jackson Case	328	(5)
The Theocentric Phase and the Transition to Process Thought: Henry Nelson Wieman, Bernard Meland, Bernard Loomer, and Daniel D. Williams	333	(6)
Process Thought	339	(15)
Laying the Philosophical Groundwork: Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne	339	(6)
Unfolding Process Theology: John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin	345	(6)
Process Theology with an Existential Tinge: Schubert Ogden	351	(3)
Theology and Culture	354	(19)
Correlating Culture and the Christian Message: Paul Tillich and Langdon Gilkey	354	(10)
Christ and Culture; or, The Long Shadow of Karl Barth: The Niebuhr Brothers	364	(9)
FOR FURTHER READING	373	(7)
12. Europe's Emphasis on Relating Christ to the World	380	(29)
Scottish Christocentrism	381	(11)
The Gospel Matters: Peter T. Forsyth	381	(2)
Christ-Centered Knowledge of God: The Baillie Brothers	383	(5)
Theology as a Science of the Triune God: Thomas F. Torrance	388	(4)
English Conservative Criticism	392	(6)
The Biblical Basis: C.H. Dodd, Charles F.D. Moule, D.E. Nineham	392	(3)
Connecting the Classical Tradition with Modernity: John Macquarrie, Richard G. Swinburne, John H. Hick	395	(3)
Scandinavian Revivalism	398	(8)
Evangelical Lay Piety: Paavo Henrik Ruotsalainen, Hans Nielsen Hauge, and Carl Olof Rosenius	399	(4)
The Ecclesial and Sacramental Piety of Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig	403	(3)
FOR FURTHER READING	406	(3)
13. Theology Is More than Protestant	409	(63)
The Entrance of Roman Catholic Theology into the Ecumenical Fold	410	(38)
A Reformer without a Home: Hugues Félicité Robert de Lamennais	410	(1)
Neo-scholasticism: Joseph Kleutgen, Matthias Scheeben, Johann Baptist Heinrich, Désiré Joseph Mercier, and Jacques Maritain	411	(2)
The Catholic Tubingen School: Johann Sebastian von Drey, Johann Adam Möhler, Johann Baptist Hirscher, and Karl Adam	413	(2)
Facing the Challenge of the Times: Anton Günther, Antonio Rosmini, and Johann Michael Sailer	415	(6)
Caught by the Reaction of Vatican I: Johann Josef Ignaz von Döllinger and Karl Joseph von Hefele	421	(2)
Modernistic Tendencies? Alfred Loisy, George Tyrrell, and Maurice Blondel	423	(4)
A New Theology: Marie-Dominique Chenu and Yves Marie Joseph Congar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Henri de Lubac, and Jean Daniélou	427	(5)
Proclamation in a New Key: Hugo and Karl Rahner, Romano Guardini, Odo Casel, Erich Przywara, and Hans Urs von Balthasar	432	(9)
In Reaction to Vatican II: Johann Baptist Metz, Hans Küng, and Edward Schillebeeckx	441	(5)
Coping with Tradition and Modernity: David Tracy	446	(2)
The Recovery of the Orthodox Tradition	448	(14)
Russia Opens to the West: Makarii Bulgakov	449	(1)
Turning In upon Itself The Slavophile Movement; Aleksei Khomiakov and Vladimir Solovyev	449	(2)
Progressiveness of Russian Theology: Dimitri Merezhkovskii and Michail Tareev	451	(1)
Russian Theology in Exile: Sergius Bulgakov, Vladimir Losskii, and Georges Florovsky	452	(4)
Russian Theology on Foreign Soil: Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff	456	(3)
Orthodox Theology in Eastern Europe and Greece: Dumitru Staniloae and Justin Popovic, Nikos Nissiotis, Joannis Zizioulas, and Christos Yannaras	459	(3)
FOR FURTHER READING	462	(10)
14. The Emergence of New Voices	472	(68)
The Quest for Liberation	472	(15)
Black Theology: James H. Cone, Deotis Roberts, and Cornel West	472	(7)
The Struggle of Liberation Theology: Clodovis and Leonardo Boff and the Vatican; Gustavo Gutiérrez	479	(8)
Liberating the Other Half of Humanity (Feminist Theology)	487	(13)
A Biblical Hermeneutics: Luise Schottroff and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza	488	(5)
A Community of Equals: Rosemary Radford Ruether	493	(3)
Beyond God the Father: Mary Daly	496	(2)
Womanist Theology: Delores Williams	498	(2)
Voices out of Africa	500	(10)
A Practical Theology: Desmond Tutu	501	(2)
The African Cultural-Religious Background: John Mbiti and Kwesi Dickson	503	(5)
Doing Theology as a Woman: Mercy Oduyoye	508	(2)
Theology with an Asian Face	510	(7)
The Dialectic and Reality of the Cross: Kazoh Kitamori and Kosuke Koyama	510	(4)
A Story Theology: C.S. Song	514	(3)
Minjung Theology: Byung-Mu Ahn	517	(1)
The Indian Tradition and Dalit Theology	517	(14)
The Approach to Christianity from the Hindu Side: Swami Vivekananda, S. Radhakrishnan, Mahatma Gandhi, and B. Upadhayaya	517	(2)
An Uncompromising Use of the Indian Religious Idiom: A.J. Appasamy, Chenchiah, and V Chakkarai	519	(3)
A Christ-Centered Ecumenical Theology: M.M. Thomas	522	(1)
Christ among the Religions of India: Stanley Samartha and Raimon Panikkar	523	(6)
Dalit Theology: Arvind Nirmal and V. Devasahayam	529	(2)
FOR FURTHER READING	531	(9)
15. A Vigorous Dialogue	540	(35)
Theology of Hope: Jurgen Moltmann and Wolthart Pannenberg	541	(11)
Theocentric Theology: John Hick and Paul Knitter	552	(8)
Theology and Science: Ralph Wendell Burhoe, Ian Barbour, and Karl Heim	560	(11)
FOR FURTHER READING	571	(4)
Conclusion	575	(4)
Bibliography	579	(2)
Index of Names	581	(9)
Index of Subjects	590