Download or read book A Layman s Guide to Protestant Theology written by William Hordern and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-03-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of the twentieth century have led to a rebirth of Protestant theology. This book is intended to help the layperson discover what is going on in theology. In clear, nontechnical language, it traces the rise of orthodoxy since the sixteenth century, and proceeds to examine schools such as fundamentalism, liberalism, and neo-orthodoxy. Because of their great influence and importance, the theologies of Karl Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich are treated separately, and this revised and expanded edition contains new chapters on Rudolf Bultmann, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the God is DeadÓ controversy.
Download or read book A Protestant Theology of Religious Pluralism written by Livingstone Thompson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book three main things have been accomplished. First, it locates the emergence of religious pluralism as a problem for Christian theology. Secondly, it shows the critical weaknesses in the approaches to pluralism that we find in the works of Gavin D'Costa, George Lindbeck and John Hick, all major players in the field of religious pluralism. Retrieving theological material from seventeenth-century Comenius and eighteenth-century Zinzendorf, the book shows that the Protestant tradition has suitable theological material that can better serve the development of a theology of religious pluralism. Thirdly, the book enters into dialogue with Islam and highlights exciting new approaches to addressing the issues of salvation, the Qur'an and Christology. One critical outcome of the book is that it breaks new ground in showing the limitations of liberation theology and proposes a fascinating, new, pluralism-sensitive hermeneutical approach to contextual theology.
Download or read book An Anxious Age written by Joseph Bottum and published by Image. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people frantically seeking confirmation of their own essential goodness. We are a nation desperate to stand of the side of morality--to know that we are righteous and dwell in the light. In An Anxious Age, Joseph Bottum offers an account of modern America, presented as a morality tale formed by a collision of spiritual disturbances. And the cause, he claims, is the most significant and least noticed historical fact of the last fifty years: the collapse of the mainline Protestant churches that were the source of social consensus and cultural unity. Our dangerous spiritual anxieties, broken loose from the churches that once contained them, now madden everything in American life. Updating The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit of Capitalism, Max Weber's sociological classic, An Anxious Age undertakes two case studies of contemporary social classes adrift in a nation without the religious understandings that gave them meaning. Looking at the college-educated elite he calls "the Poster Children," Bottum sees the post-Protestant heirs of the old mainline Protestant domination of culture: dutiful descendants who claim the high social position of their Christian ancestors even while they reject their ancestors' Christianity. Turning to the Swallows of Capistrano, the Catholics formed by the pontificate of John Paul II, Bottum evaluates the early victories--and later defeats--of the attempt to substitute Catholicism for the dying mainline voice in public life. Sweeping across American intellectual and cultural history, An Anxious Age traces the course of national religion and warns about the strange angels and even stranger demons with which we now wrestle. Insightful and contrarian, wise and unexpected, An Anxious Age ranks among the great modern accounts of American culture.
Download or read book Towards a Protestant theology of religions written by Paul Knitter and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Protestant Faith written by George Wolfgang Forell and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of a standard text describes lucidly and comprehensively the "classical Protestant faith" with the help of illustrations drawn from contemporary life. It does not assume previous knowledge yet does not avoid the more complex issues in Christian theology, such as the theories of the atonement or the doctrine of the trinity.In eight chapters the author explains, against many current misunderstandings, what Christians mean by faith. He describes the nature of revelation and the God who has revealed himself -- and what this means for an understanding of the world and the human condition in this world. This is followed by an explanation of the doctrine of Christ, his humanity and divinity, and his work on behalf of the human race.Professor Forell concludes with an explanation of the work of the Holy Spirit through the church by means of word and sacrament and details the Christian hope for the coming kingdom of God. The Protestant Faith has a valuable appendix which makes available the universal Christian creeds and confessional statements, and adds to its appeal as a text and reference manual.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Theology of Religions written by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Christianity relate to other religions? Beginning with a consideration of the biblical perspective, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen offers a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse explanations proposed by teachers of the church down through the ages. This indispensable guide is for anyone seeking to grasp Christianity?s relationship to world religions.
Download or read book Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Netherlands written by Arie L. Molendijk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Netherlands examines how Dutch Protestant thinkers and theologicans met the challenges of the rapidly modernizing world around them. It shows that the nineteenth-century saw theology fundamentally transformed and reinvented in a variety of ways. Enlightenment values were fiercely attacked by orthodox Pietists but embraced by 'modern' theologians. Positions were not fixed and theologians has to work hard to maintain their intellectual integrity. Jewish Isaac da Costa converted to Christianity and fulminated against the Zeitgeist. Allard Pierson, who in his youth had been under the spell of Da Costa, resigned from his ministry and adopted an 'agnostic' stance. Abraham Kuyper modernized theology and politics, by laying the foundations of 'pillarization' (the segmented social structures based on differences in religion and worldview) of Dutch society. Abraham Kuenen revolutionized the study of the Old Testament, and Protestant theologians made ground-breaking contributions to the emerging science of religion. This book used in-depth studies of a small number of significant and influential Protestant thinkers to analyse how they addressed specific modern transformation processes such as political modernization, the pluralization of world views, and the emergence of critical historical scholarship. It also considers the significant Dutch contribution to the historical-critical study of the Bible, and the emergence of the modern comparative study of religion.
Download or read book Towards a Protestant Theology of Religions written by Paul F. Knitter and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century written by Karl Barth and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2002-07-17 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous editions are cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed.Barth (d. 1968, formerly dogmatic theology, U. of Basel, Switzerland) saw this monumental work as incomplete. Yet it offers a substantial treatment of the history of theology and philosophy in German-speaking countries in the 18th and 19th centuries. The first half of the book is devoted to "background" with major sections on Rousseau, Lessing, Kant, Herder, Novalis, and Hegel. The remainder of the book considers 19th-century Protestant thinkers, beginning with Schleiermacher. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Institutes of the Christian Religion written by John Calvin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 1521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Calvin's 'Institutes of the Christian Religion' is a seminal work of Protestant theology, originally published in 1536. The book explores core Christian doctrines such as the nature of God, salvation, and the church, presenting them in a systematic and rigorous fashion. Calvin's writing style is characterized by its clarity, logical structure, and deep engagement with biblical texts and theological traditions. The 'Institutes' played a significant role in shaping Protestant thought and remains a foundational text in Reformed theology. In addition to its theological insights, the book also reflects Calvin's pastoral concerns and his desire to provide spiritual guidance for believers. Through his meticulous exegesis and theological reflection, Calvin offers readers a profound understanding of key Christian beliefs and their implications for Christian life and practice. John Calvin, a French theologian and pastor, is best known for his role in the Protestant Reformation and his development of Reformed theology. As a prominent figure in 16th-century Protestantism, Calvin's writings continue to be studied and revered by scholars and theologians around the world. His deep theological insights and pastoral wisdom are evident in the 'Institutes,' making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of Christian theology or seeking to deepen their understanding of the Christian faith. I highly recommend 'Institutes of the Christian Religion' to readers who are interested in exploring foundational Christian doctrines and engaging with the theological legacy of the Protestant Reformation.
Download or read book The Protestant Rule of Faith written by Charles Hodge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a scholarly work dealing with a question of theology. Hodge begins by describing what the beliefs of all protestants are regarding their faith. He lists these and then goes on to discuss which books should therefore be allowed in the canon. Charles Hodge was an eminent 19th-century American theologian.
Download or read book Myth History and the Resurrection in German Protestant Theology written by Brent A. R. Hege and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian faith stands or falls with the confession that Jesus Christ is risen. While that assertion itself is perhaps uncontroversial, precisely what this confession means has been a subject of profound significance and immense controversy for centuries. Central to this discussion is the role of myth and history in the biblical witness and in the church’s theological engagement with the confession that Jesus Christ is risen. This book traces key trajectories of German Protestant discussions of myth, history, and the resurrection from its earliest critical analysis in the work of Hermann Samuel Reimarus and David Friedrich Strauss to contemporary appraisals by Eberhard Jüngel and Ingolf Ulrich Dalferth. At the center of this discussion stands Rudolf Bultmann, whose work on the resurrection sparked fierce debates that left a lasting impact on Protestant theology in Germany and beyond. The questions raised by these theologians continue to resonate in contemporary discussions of the nature and status of biblical texts, the integrity and truth of the Christian confession, and the meaning and significance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ for Christian faith and life at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University written by Thomas Albert Howard and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book History of Protestant Theology written by Isaak A. Dorner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present workÉseeks, under the guidance of the spirit of evangelical catholicity, to furnish the historical evidence thatÉevangelical Protestant Christendom forms a unity. from the Preface
Download or read book The Philosophy of Religion from the Standpoint of Protestant Theology written by Emil Brunner and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Century of Protestant Theology written by Alasdair I. C. Heron and published by Philadelphia : Westminster Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protestant Thought Before Kant written by Arthur Cushman McGiffert and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
