Readings in the history of Christian theology. Volume 2, from the Reformation to the present / edited by William C. Placher, Derek R. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Placher, William C. (William Carl), 1948-2008, editor.

Nelson, Derek R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology--History.

Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2017]

Summary:

William Placher and Derek Nelson compile significant passages written by the most important Christian thinkers, from the Reformers of the sixteenth century through the major participants in the contemporary theological conversation. Illustrating the major theologians, controversies, and schools of thought, Readings in the History of Christian...

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

1. Luther and the Radical Reformation

Martin Luther The Freedom of a Christian

Ulrich Zwingli An Account of the Faith of Zwingli

Martin Luther That These Words of Christ, "This Is My Body," etc., Still Stand Firm against the Fanatics

George Blaurock The Hutterite Chronicle

Thomas Müntzer Sermon before the Princes

The Schleitheim Confession of Faith

Menno Simons Menno Simons' Life and Writings

The Formula of Concord

2. The Catholic Reformation

Consilium de Emendanda Ecclesia

Thomas de Vio, Cardinal Cajetan Faith and Works-Against the Lutherans

Council of Trent Decree concerning Justification

Ignatius Loyola Rules for Thinking with the Church

Teresa of Ávila The Life of Teresa of Jesus

Francisco Suárez A Work on the Three Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Charity

Blaise Pascal Pensées

3. Calvin and the English Reformation

John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion

The Five Arminian Articles

The Canons of the Synod of Dort

John Knox History of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland

Richard Hooker The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

Thomas Cartwright A Reply to an Answer Made of Master Doctor Whitgift against the Admonition to Parliament

Gerrard Winstanley The Law of Freedom in a Platform

George Fox Journal

4. Theology in the Enlightenment

John Locke The Reasonableness of Christianity

Matthew Tindal Christianity as Old as the Creation

Philip Jacob Spener Pia Desideria

John Wesley The Scripture Way of Salvation

John Wesley Predestination Calmly Considered

David Hume Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.

Gotthold Lessing On the Proof of the Spirit and of Power

Immanuel Kant Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone

5. Theology in America

John Winthrop A Model of Christian Charity

Thomas Hooker The Activity of Faith: or, Abraham's Imitators

Jonathan Edwards Personal Narrative

David Walker Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of the Religion of Jesus Christ

William Ellery Channing The Essence of the Christian Religion

Charles Grandison Finney Lectures on Revivals of Religion

Sarah M. Grimké Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman

Ralph Waldo Emerson The Divinity School Address

Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Joseph Smith King Follett Discourse

Horace Bushnell Christian Nurture

6. The Nineteenth Century

Friedrich Schleiermacher On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers

David Friedrich Strauss The Life of Jesus Critically Examined

Ludwig Feuerbach Lectures on the Essence of Religion

Søren Kierkegaard Attack upon "Christendom"

First Vatican Council First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ

John Henry Newman Apologia Pro Vita Sua

Adolf Harnack What Is Christianity?

Albert Schweitzer The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Ernst Troeltsch The Place of Christianity among the World Religions

Charles Hodge Systematic Theology

7. Theology at the End of Christendom

Karl Barth Church Dogmatics

The Barmen Declaration

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison

Reinhold Niebuhr Christianity and Power Politics

Rudolf Bultmann New Testament and Mythology

Paul Tillich Systematic Theology

Second Vatican Council Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World

Karl Rahner In Search of a Short Formula of the Christian Faith.

Alfred North Whitehead Process and Reality

8. Theology, Identity, and Liberation

Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail

James H. Cone Black Theology in American Religion

Delores Williams Sisters in the Wilderness

Rosemary Radford Ruether Mother Earth and the Megamachine

Gustavo Gutiérrez Liberation Praxis and Christian Faith

Leonardo Boff Ecclesiogenesis: The Base Communities Reinvent the Church

Ivan Petrella Beyond Liberation Theology: A Polemic

John Mbiti The Encounter of Christian Faith and African Religion

C. S. Song The Cross and the Lotus

Evgeny Barabanov The Schism between the Church and the World

John Milbank Postmodern Critical Augustinianism

9. The Current Scene

Eberhard Jüngel God as the Mystery of the World

Sarah Coakley Powers and Submissions

Jürgen Moltmann The Crucified God

Wolfhart Pannenberg Jesus-God and Man

David Bentley Hart The Doors of the Sea

Mercy Amba Oduyoye Who Will Roll the Stone Away?

Lesslie Newbigin The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

John Polkinghorne Theology in the Context of Science

Elizabeth Johnson Quest for the Living God

Index.

Notes:

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Includes index.

ISBN:

9781611647839

1611647835

OCLC:

1127918119