20Th-Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age
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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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Rated 5 starsEven after almost 20 years its still one of the best books on the topic
Written in the early 1990's, one would think that after nearly 20 years Grenz and Olson's book would have been supplanted numerous times, either by new editions from the authors themselves, or by others. And while other volumes with the same purpose have been published with varying degrees of success (one thinks for example, of Hans Schwarz's magisterial Theology in a Global Context: The Last Two Hundred Years, which in many...
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Rated 5 starsHelpful Introduction to 20th Century Theology
If anyone studies Historical Theology, then this is a good place to start for the 20th Century. I must admit from the start that I agree with very little which 20th Century Theologians espouse (I am a confessional, Reformed Protestant who adheres to the Westminster Confession), but that does not stop me from enjoying things written by them and about them. Grenz and Olson write from a sympathetic, yet critical standpoint...
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Rated 5 starscomprehensive and accurate
This book provides a comprehensive review on various theological thoughts and movements in the past centuries. Although the authors are evangelists themselves, I think their comments on other schools of thoughts are accurate and fair. The authors use the co-presence of transcendence and immanence of God as a central line in theology, and argue that many theological thoughts are shifted to either side from the central line...
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Rated 5 starsA Comprehensive, Engaging Work
If you are seriously interested in understanding the current theological diversity within Christianity and how it came to be, then this book is for you. Grenz and Olson diligently present the major theological ideas that have shaped theological discourse for the past one hundred years. The book provides a detailed survey of the ideas put forth by the great theologians of the past century and the movements that they founded:...
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Rated 5 starsA great introduction to Theology
This book is a great introduction for bible students trying to understand the diversity of theological interpretation which has sprung up in the last 100 years or so. The benchmark themes of transcedence and immanence is cleverly concieved and well spun into the chapters.
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