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Modern Christian Thought, Volume II: The Twentieth Century 2/e
James C. Livingston Emeritus
Francis Schussler Fiorenza
Sarah Coakley
James H. Evans Jr.
Published June 1999 by Prentice Hall
Copyright 2000, 544 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-02-371410-7
List Price:
$63.00
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Summary

This extensive book bestows readers with full expositions of the thought of the leading modern theologians and philosophers of religion since the eighteenth century Enlightenment. Modern Christian Thought provides the reader with ample, lucid, and scholarly summaries of the ideas of the leading theologians and religious thinkers in the Christian tradition of the past 300 years. KEY TOPICS: Gives the reader scholarly, up-to-date expositions and criticisms of the major thinkers in the Christian tradition since the eighteenth century and their importance for religious thought. Provides readers with background information on movements such as the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Idealism, Darwinism, Existentialism, and Liberation Theology. Covers thinkers such as David Hume, Immanuel Kant, J.J. Rousseau, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, J.G. Hamann, J.G. Herder, Louis Bautain, Maurice Blondel, Wilhelm Herrman, and many others. MARKET: Appropriate for readers interested in Modern and Contemporary Christian Thought and Theology as well as Twentieth-Century Religious Thought.

Features

  • NEW - Reorganizes content into two volumes—Vol. I covers the Enlightenment and the 19th century; Vol. II explores contemporary Christian thought in the 20th century.

    • Gives instructors greater course flexibility. Ex.___

  • A comprehensive examination of major figures and movements in both Catholic and Protestant thought since the Enlightenment—in both Europe and America.

    • Provides balanced coverage of both Catholic and Protestant thought. Ex.___

  • Focus on developments in historical, philosophical, and apologetical theology—The encounter between Christian ideas and modern philosophy, history, and the natural sciences, rather than the development of particular doctrines per se.

    • Shows students the context in which a movement emerged, or the cultural background that influenced a thinker's work. Ex.___

  • Extensive exploration of the thought of modern thinkers who, though not Christian writers, have had a profound influence on Christian thought—e.g., Hume, Kant, Darwin, Marx, Nietzche, and Wittgenstein.

    • Demonstrates the connection between Christianity and the world around us. Ex.___

  • Emphasis on a few problems that have emerged again and again in the modern history of Christian theology—The problem of religious authority; the issues that have emerged from the critical study of the Bible and Church history, especially the problem of the historical Jesus and the development of doctrine; the question of our knowledge of God and God's relation to the world; the relation of Christianity to other faiths.

    • Focus students on issues of perennial interest to all. Ex.___

  • NEW - Chapters on movements since 1960—e.g., Process theology; African-American; Feminist; Liberationist theologies; Hermeneutical theology; Evangelical theology; Postmodernism and Postliberalism.

    • Provides up-to-date coverage. Ex.___

  • NEW - Discussion of earlier thinkers of renewed interest today—e.g., Herder, Möhler, Wilhelm Herrman, M. Blondel, and E. Troeltsch.

    • Meets the needs of today's classroom. Ex.___

  • Generous use of significant quotations from the writings of the major thinkers themselves.

    • Exposes students to the thinker's own ideas, in their own words. Ex.___

  • Ample discussion of important figures who are not even mentioned in many texts, but who are important in understanding modern Christian thought—e.g., J. G. Hamann, J. Maréchal, M. Blondel, F. Gogarten, J. Metz.

    • Introduces students to important thinkers who often do not get adequate treatment. Ex.___

  • NEW - Chapters on conservative movements
    • —Ultramontanism/
    • Neo-Thomism; The Princeton Theology; and Evangelicalism.

    • Provides up-to-date coverage. Ex.___

  • NEW - Completely new annotated bibliographies listing the very best current literature on each movement and thinker.

    • Aids student research Ex.___

  • NEW - Contains portraits of the major thinkers discussed in each chapter.

    • Provides background information. Ex.___
Table of Contents

VOLUME I:

Introduction: Modernity and Christianity.


 1. The Enlightenment and Modern Christianity.


 2. The Religion of Reason.


 3. The Breakdown of the Religion of Reason.


 4. Christianity and Romanticism: Protestant Thought.


 5. Christianity and Speculative Idealism.


 6. Romanticism and French Catholic Thought: Traditionalism and Fideism.


 7. Romanticism and the Anglo-Catholic Revival: The Oxford Movement.


 8. Catholic Thought in Germany and England: The Tübingen School and John Henry Newman.


 9. The Post-Hegelian Critique of Christianity in Germany.


10. The Encounter Between Science and Theology: Biblical Criticism and Darwinism.


11. The Ritschlian Theology and Protestant Liberalism.


12. Movements of Recovery and Conservation: The Princeton Theology.


13. Movements of Recovery and Conservation: Ultramontanism and the Neo-Thomistic Revival.


14. Roman Catholic Thought at the End of the Century: The New Apologetics and Modernism.


15. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Toward the Twentieth Century.
VOLUME II:

 1. The Legacy of Modernity and the New Challenges of Historical Theology.


 2. American Empirical and Naturalistic Theology.


 3. The Dialectical Theology: Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, and Friedrich Gogaten.


 4. The Theology of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.


 5. Christian Existentialism.


 6. Christian Realism: A Post-Liberal American Theology.


 7. The New Theology and Transcendental Thomism.


 8. Vatican II and the Aggiornamento of Roman Catholic Theologies.


 9. Political Theology and Latin American Liberation Theologies.


10. Process Theology.


11. History and Hermeneutics.


12. Evangelical Theology.


13. Feminist Theology.


14. Black Theology in America.


15. Theology of Religions: Christianity Responses to Other Faiths.


16. Christian Thought at the End of the Twentieth Century.


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