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Modernity has been an age of revolutions--political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the "acids of modernity." Modern theology is the result of this struggle to think responsibly about God within the modern cultural ethos. In this major revision and expansion of the classic20th Century Theology (1992), co-authored with Stanley J. Grenz, Roger Olson widens the scope of the story to include a fuller account of modernity, more material on the nineteenth century and an engagement with postmodernity. More importantly, the entire narrative is now recast in terms of how theologians have accommodated or rejected the Enlightenment and scientific revolutions. With that question in mind, Olson guides us on the epic journey of modern theology, from the liberal "reconstruction" of theology that originated with Friedrich Schleiermacher to the postliberal and postmodern "deconstruction" of modern theology that continues today. The Journey of Modern Theology is vintage Olson: eminently readable, panoramic in scope, at once original and balanced, and marked throughout by a passionate concern for the church's faithfulness to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This will no doubt become another standard text in historical theology.
Modernity has been an age of revolutions--political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the "acids of modernity." Modern theology is the result of this struggle to think responsibly about God within the modern cultural ethos. In this major revision and expansion of the classic20th Century Theology (1992), co-authored with Stanley J. Grenz, Roger Olson widens the scope of the story to include a fuller account of modernity, more material on the nineteenth century and an engagement with postmodernity. More importantly, the entire narrative is now recast in terms of how theologians have accommodated or rejected the Enlightenment and scientific revolutions. With that question in mind, Olson guides us on the epic journey of modern theology, from the liberal "reconstruction" of theology that originated with Friedrich Schleiermacher to the postliberal and postmodern "deconstruction" of modern theology that continues today. The Journey of Modern Theology is vintage Olson: eminently readable, panoramic in scope, at once original and balanced, and marked throughout by a passionate concern for the church's faithfulness to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This will no doubt become another standard text in historical theology.
Preface
An Important Note for All Readers but Especially for Professors and
Scholars
Introduction
1. Modernity Challenges Traditional Theology: The Context of
Early Modern Theology
1.a. Science Revises the Heavens
1.b. . Philosophers Lay New Foundations for Knowledge
1.c. Deists Create a New Natural Religion
1.d. Critical Philosophers Limit Religion to Reason
1.e. Realists, Romanticists and Existentialists Respond
2. Liberal Theologies Reconstruct Christianity in Light of
Modernity
2.a. Friedrich Schleiermacher Launches a Copernican Revolution in
Theology
2.b. Albrecht Ritschl and His Disciples Accommodate to
Modernity
2.c. Ernst Troeltsch Relativizes Christianity
2.d. Catholic Modernists Attempt to Bring Rome up to Date
3. Conservative Protestant Theology Defends Orthodoxy in a
Modern Way
4. Mediating Theologies Build Bridges between Orthodoxy and
Liberalism
4.a. Isaak August Dorner Bridges the Gap between Liberal and
Orthodox Theologies
4.b. Horace Bushnell Searches for a Progressive Orthodoxy
5. Neo-Orthodox/Dialectical/Kerygmatic Theologies Revive the
Reformation in the Modern Context
5.a. Karl Barth Drops a Bombshell on the Theologians'
Playground
5.b. Rudolf Bultmann Existentializes and Demythologizes
Christianity
5.c. Reinhold Niebuhr Rediscovers Original Sin and Develops
Christian Realism
6. Chastened Liberal Theologies Renew and Revise the Dialogue
with Modernity
6.a. Paul Tillich Describes God as the Ground of Being, a "God
above God"
6.b. Process Theology Brings God Down to Earth
7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Radical Theologians Envision a
Religionless Christianity
8. Theologians Look to the Future with Hope
8.a. Jürgen Moltmann Renews Confidence in the Final Triumph of
God
8.b. Wolfhart Pannenberg Revitalizes Rational Faith in History?s
God
9. Liberation Theologies Protest Injustice and
Oppression
10. Catholic Theologians Engage with Modernity
10.a. Karl Rahner Finds God in Human Experience
10.b. Hans Küng Advocates a New Paradigm of Catholic Theology
10.c. Hans Urs von Balthasar Bases Christian Truth on Beauty
11. Evangelical Theology Comes of Age and Wrestles with
Modernity
12. Postmodern Theologians Rebel against Modernity
12.a. Postliberal Theologians and Stanley Hauerwas Develop a Third
Way in Theology
12.b. John Caputo Deconstructs Religion with the Kingdom of God
Conclusion
Index
Roger E. Olson (PhD, Rice University) is professor of theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is the author of The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition Reform, The Mosaic of Christian Belief: Twenty Centuries of Unity Diversity and Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities (all InterVarsity Press).
"Olson's book is an advised reading for all the students who desire
a complete introduction to modern theology. Professors of theology
and history of Christianity, as well as pastors and lay church
leaders will appreciate this book as a good resource to facilitate
the understanding of the recent changes in Christianity and
theology in relation to modern and postmodern cultural
context."
*Roy E. Graf Maiorov, Journal of Asia Adventist Seminary, 16.2
(2013)*
"Olson's style is lucid, careful, and immensely readable. Whether
as a story of theological history, a survey, or reference work,
this book should serve far more than the intended audience as a
heuristic tool for understanding and appropriating the challenges
of modernity and our varying responses. For those not included in
this work, Olson has set the standard by which to evaluate their
theological appropriation of modernity. It is impossible not to
learn from this book."
*Wolfgang Vondey, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, June
2015*
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