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