
Intervarsity Press
393 pp. (January 1997)
ISBN: 0830815252
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20th Century Theology:
God & the World in a Transitional
Age
By Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson
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, liberation
theology and theology of hope. And it assesses recent developments
in feminist theology, black theology, new Catholic theology, narrative
theology and evangelical theology. An indispensable handbook for
anybody interested in today's theological landscape.
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'This book tells the complex story of modern theology
in a critically discerning way--no small feat itself. Second it
provides a useful key for interpreting these developments through
the biblical dialectic of God's transcendence and immanence--a terrific
idea in my view. Third, it demonstrates that evangelical theology
is at last coming of age--thank God. No other book offers three
benefits of this magnitude at this or any other price.'
--Clark H. Pinnock McMaster Divinity College
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