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20th-Century Theology God and the World in a Transitional Age

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ISBN-10: 0830815252

ISBN-13: 9780830815258

Edition: 1992

Authors: Stanley J. Grenz, Roger E. Olson

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Recipient of a Christianity Today 1993 Critics' Choice Award!Now in paperback! 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,…    
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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 10/25/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 393
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Stanley J. Grenz is Professor of Theology and Ethics at Carey/Regent College, Vancouver, and affiliate professor at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lombard, Illinois. He is the author of many books, including "Theology for the Community of God" and "A Primer on Postmodernism". Westminster John Knox Press has published several of his books, including "Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective"; "Welcoming But Not Affirming: An Evangelical Response to Homosexuality"; and "What Christians Really Believe and Why".

Roger E. Olson (Ph.D., Rice University) is professor of theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is the author of The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform, The Mosaic of Christian Belief: Twenty Centuries of Unity & Diversity (both InterVarsity Press) and The Westminster Handbook to Evangelical Theology (Westminster John Knox). He is also coauthor of 20th-Century Theology: God & the World in a Transitional Age and Who Needs Theology? An Invitation to the Study of God (both with Stanley J. Grenz, InterVarsity Press), and of The Trinity (with Christopher A. Hall, Eerdmans).

Preface
Introduction: Transcendence and Immanence and Modern Theological History
the Enlightenment: The Shattering of the Classical Balance
the Reconstruction of Transcendence: Immanence in Nineteenth-Century Theology
the Revolt Against Immanence: Transcendence in Neo-orthodoxy
the Deepening of Immanence: Reformulations of the Liberal Tradition
Process Theology
Immanence Within the Secular: The Radical Movement
Secular Theology
the Transcendence of the Future: The Theology of HopeJ�rgen Moltmann
the Renewal of Immanence in the Experience of Oppression: Liberation Theologies
Black Liberation Theology
Latin American Liberation Theology
Feminist Theology
the Transcendence of the Human Spirit: The New Catholic Theology
Transcendence Within the Story: Narrative Theology
Reaffirming the Balance: Evangelical Theology Coming of AgeCarl
Conclusion: Past Contributions and Future Prospects in the Quest for a Theology of Transcendence and Immanence
Notes
Bibliography
Author and Name Index
Subject Index