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Book SynopsisChristopher 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 Easte
Trade ReviewFrom Hegel to Barth and Bultmann to revisionist and secular theologies, Simpson has supplied the clearest textbook yet in this field and has brought the debates up to date and situated them within a wider global and postcolonial framework than is the case with many of the other books in this field. I don't just heartily recommend it - this book will be the primary point of reference for my lectures and seminar discussions in the years ahead. -- Chris Deacy, University of Kent, UK
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Images and Figures Introduction
PART I: EMERGING MODERNITY Chapter 1: The Middle Ages and the Lost World Chapter 2: Reformation and Humanism: 1400-1650 Chapter 3: Enlightenments and Awakenings: 1650-1800 Chapter 4: Kant
PART II: THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY Chapter 5: Romanticism: 1800-1850 Chapter 6: Schleiermacher Chapter 7: Hegel and Hegelians Chapter 8: Coping with the Nova Chapter 9: Early-Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Anglo-Catholic Theology Chapter 10: Ritschlianism Chapter 11: Late-Nineteenth-Century Catholic Theology
PART III: TWENTIETH-CENTURY CRISIS AND MODERNITY Chapter 12: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche Chapter 13: Barth Chapter 14: Bultmann and Tillich Chapter 15: Early-Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology Chapter 16: Twentieth-Century Eastern Orthodox Theology Chapter 17: Conservative Protestants in America
PART IV: THE LATE MODERN SUPERNOVA Chapter 18: Later Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology Chapter 19: Liberation Theologies Chapter 20: Revisionist and Secular Theologies Chapter 21: Postliberal and Postsecular Theologies
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