Fifty Key Christian Thinkers (Routledge Key Guides)

✍ Scribed by Peter McEnhill, George Newlands

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Series: Routledge Key Guides
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The introduction gives criteria for the book as "theologians who have self-consciously and explicitly attempted to rethink the Christian faith for their context and time."

That definition includes heretics. So there are many (many!) entries on folks whose ideas are non-Christian; feminist and post-modern theorists, for example. They aren't Christian thinkers, they just thought (or think) about Christianity. Churches dissolve in proportion to the extent they accept the beliefs of such people.

There are some good entries for earlier, historical figures, but most of the entries will be of no interest or use to people wanting to learn about Christianity -- no more so than a book about mathematics with articles about people who wrote about the "color" of numbers, how they make them feel, numerology, astrology, etc.

There are criteria for who is a mathematician and what mathematics is. The same is true for Christianity.

Expensive enough relative to disappointment to actually request return.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTENTS......Page 6
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF CONTENTS......Page 9
PREFACE......Page 11
ABELARD, PETER (1079–1142)......Page 15
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY (1033–1109)......Page 20
AQUINAS, THOMAS (1225–74)......Page 26
ARIUS (c.270–336)......Page 34
ATHANASIUS (295–373)......Page 39
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (354–430)......Page 44
BAILLIE, JOHN (1886–1960) and DONALD (1887-1954)......Page 52
BARTH, KARL (1886–1968)......Page 61
BOETHIUS, ANICIUS MANLIUS TORQUATUS SEVERINUS (c.480-c.525)......Page 68
BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH (1906–45)......Page 71
BRUNNER, EMIL (1889–1966)......Page 79
BULTMANN, RUDOLF (1884–1976)......Page 84
CALVIN, JOHN (1509–64)......Page 89
CAPPADOCIAN FATHERS, THE......Page 98
DUNS SCOTUS, JOHN (c.1265–1308)......Page 104
EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1703–58)......Page 106
FEUERBACH, LUDWIG (1804–72)......Page 110
FORSYTH, PETER TAYLOR (1848–1921)......Page 114
GUTIERREZ, GUSTAVO (1928–)......Page 119
HARNACK, ADOLF VON (1851–1930)......Page 123
HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH (1770-1831)......Page 126
HICK, JOHN HARWOOD (1922–)......Page 131
IRENAEUS (c.130–c.200)......Page 138
JOHN OF DAMASCUS (c.675–749)......Page 142
JUSTIN MARTYR (c.100–65)......Page 146
KANT, IMMANUEL (1724–1804)......Page 149
KIERKEGAARD, SOREN (1813–55)......Page 155
KUNG, HANS (1928–)......Page 160
LUTHER, MARTIN (1483–1546)......Page 165
MOLTMANN, JURGEN (1926–)......Page 173
NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY (1801–90)......Page 177
NIEBUHR, REINHOLD (1892–1971)......Page 180
ORIGEN (c.185–254)......Page 184
PANNENBERG, WOLFHART (1928–)......Page 188
PAUL (?–c.64)......Page 194
RAHNER, KARL (1904–84)......Page 200
REIMARUS, HERMANN SAMUEL (1694-1768)......Page 205
RITSCHL, ALBRECHT (1822–89)......Page 208
RUETHER, ROSEMARY RADFORD (1936-)......Page 212
SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST (1768-1834)......Page 215
SCHÜSSLER-FIORENZA, ELISABETH (1938-)......Page 219
STRAUSS, DAVID FRIEDRICH (1808–74)......Page 223
TERTULLIAN, QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS (c.160-c.225)......Page 228
TILLICH, PAUL (1886–1965)......Page 233
TRACY, DAVID (1939–)......Page 240
TROELTSCH, ERNST (1865–1923)......Page 243
ZWINGLI, HULDRYCH (1484–1531)......Page 246
GLOSSARY......Page 253
INDEX......Page 260

✦ Subjects

Религиоведение;Религиоведение христианства;