Title: The journey of modern theology : from reconstruction to deconstruction /
Authors: Olson, Roger E.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal History
Abstract: "Modernity has been an age of revolutionspolitical, 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 classic 20th 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" -- Publisher description.
Contents: 1. Modernity Challenges Traditional Theology: The Context of Early Modern Theology -- Science Revises the Heavens -- Philosophers Lay New Foundations for Knowledge -- Deists Create a New Natural Religion -- Critical Philosophers Limit Religion to Reason -- Realists, Romanticists and Existentialists Respond -- 2. Liberal Theologies Reconstruct Christianity in Light of Modernity -- Friedrich Schleiermacher Launches a Copernican Revolution in Theology -- Albrecht Ritschl and His Disciples Accommodate to Modernity -- Ernst Troeltsch Relativizes Christianity -- 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 -- Isaak August Dorner Bridges the Gap between Liberal and Orthodox Theologies -- Horace Bushnell Searches for a Progressive Orthodoxy --^