The journey of modern theology
Subtitle: from reconstruction to deconstruction
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Downers Grove, Ill., USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780830840212
Description: "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.