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Modern Christian Theology
Christopher Ben Simpson tells the story of modern Christian theology against the backdrop of the history of modernity itself. The book tells the many ways that theology became modern while seeing how modernity arose in no small part from theology. These intertwined stories progress through four parts.
In Part I, Emerging Modernity , Simpson goes from the beginnings of modernity in the late Middle Ages through the Protestant Reformation and Renaissance Humanism to the creative tension between Enlightenments and Awakenings of the eighteenth-century. Part II, The Long Nineteenth-Century , presents the great movements and figures arising out of these creative tension - from Romanticism and Schleiermacher to Ritschlianism and Vatican I. Part III, Twentieth-Century Crisis and Modernity , proceeds through the revolutionary theologies of period of the World Wars such as that of Karl Barth or novuelle theologie; this part includes a thorough section on modern Eastern Orthodox theology. Finally, Part IV, The Late Modern Supernova , lays out the diverse panoply of recent theologies - from the various liberation theologies to the revisionist, the secular, the postliberal, and the postsecular.
Designed for classroom use, this volume includes the following
- boxes/chart/diagrams/visual organizations of the information presented included e.g. lists of key points, visual organizations of systematic ideas in a given thinker, lists of significant works, lists of significant dates, brief outlines of the basic structure of some major theological works
- both a one-page chapter title table of the contents and an expanded(multipage) table of contents
- chapter at-a-glance overview/outline at the beginning of each chapter
- specific references to secondary works and key primary works in Enqlish translation at the end of chapters
In Part I, Emerging Modernity , Simpson goes from the beginnings of modernity in the late Middle Ages through the Protestant Reformation and Renaissance Humanism to the creative tension between Enlightenments and Awakenings of the eighteenth-century. Part II, The Long Nineteenth-Century , presents the great movements and figures arising out of these creative tension - from Romanticism and Schleiermacher to Ritschlianism and Vatican I. Part III, Twentieth-Century Crisis and Modernity , proceeds through the revolutionary theologies of period of the World Wars such as that of Karl Barth or novuelle theologie; this part includes a thorough section on modern Eastern Orthodox theology. Finally, Part IV, The Late Modern Supernova , lays out the diverse panoply of recent theologies - from the various liberation theologies to the revisionist, the secular, the postliberal, and the postsecular.
Designed for classroom use, this volume includes the following
- boxes/chart/diagrams/visual organizations of the information presented included e.g. lists of key points, visual organizations of systematic ideas in a given thinker, lists of significant works, lists of significant dates, brief outlines of the basic structure of some major theological works
- both a one-page chapter title table of the contents and an expanded(multipage) table of contents
- chapter at-a-glance overview/outline at the beginning of each chapter
- specific references to secondary works and key primary works in Enqlish translation at the end of chapters
416 pages, Paperback
First published March 24, 2016
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Christopher Ben Simpson
13 books3 followersChristopher Ben Simpson is an associate professor of philosophy and theology at Lincoln Christian University (Lincoln, IL).
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November 5, 2023
Broad, informative, and accessible. More detail in some areas would have been nice, but this was going for a more summary approach...can only make a given book so long right?
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