Roundtable: Conversations with European Theologians

Roundtable is entertaining, insightful, and thought-provoking. It is a series of interviews with the foremost Christian theologians in Europe, from a variety of traditions. Among others, Jurgen Moltmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Dorothee Solle, Thomas Torrance, Alister McGrath, and John Macquarrie are included. Each theologian answers the following questions: What is a good life, and what good is life? What is a good death, and what good is death? What things have made you doubt, and how have you handled them? Do you have any regrets? How would you describe God? What is a human being? What is the most perfect creed the church has ever written and why do you think so? What are you proudest of, or what has given you the most satisfaction? If you could ask any theologian of any time or place just one question, whom would you ask and what would you ask?From the Trinitarian focus of Kallistos Ware to Moltmann's theology of hope, from the liberation theology of Solle to the traditional evangelicalism of McGrath, this volume is a microcosm of the contemporary theological world. It will whet your appetite and provide an incentive to read more contemporary theology. American evangelicals must escape their fundamentalist ghetto and open their minds to the extraordinary insights of some of their contemporaries. Evangelicals should understand that interaction does not equal compromise. We need not tie ourselves to the mast of fundamentalist ignorance in order to escape the siren song of liberalism. There is a via media. Reading Roundtable is a good way to begin an American theological renaissance.