Human Destiny and Resurrection in Pannenberg and Rahner

Human Destiny and Resurrection in Pannenberg and Rahner
Author: James T. Bridges
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1987
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Human Destiny and Resurrection in Pannenberg and Rahner examines the basic philosophical backgrounds of these major theologians to set in relief their fundamental similarities and differences on the relationship between human destiny and the understanding of reality and truth. By interrogating two distinct and critical forms of the Christian doctrine of life beyond death in its relationship to modern academic thought and concerns, Dr. Bridges leads reflection to the broader issue of the relationship of Christian theology to modern secular thought.

Wolfhart Pannenberg on Human Destiny

Wolfhart Pannenberg on Human Destiny
Author: Kam Ming Wong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1351872443

Based on one of the greatest living theologians, Wolfhart Pannenberg, this book is the first comprehensive study of 'human destiny'. Mapping out the movement of humanity over the course of its history to its common destiny from creation through sin and ethics to eschatology, the book also examines the extent to which scholars such as Herder have influenced Pannenberg's work in this important area and shows how Pannenberg's project on ethics is related to human destiny.

The Unity of Nature and History in Pannenberg's Theology

The Unity of Nature and History in Pannenberg's Theology
Author: Cornelius A. Buller
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822630555

The Unity of Nature and History in Pannenberg's Theology addresses the problematic relationship of humans to the non-human world by analyzing Wolfhart Pannenberg's theology and ethics.

Introduction to Wolfhart Pannenberg's Systematic Theology

Introduction to Wolfhart Pannenberg's Systematic Theology
Author: Gunther Wenz
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2012-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3647560146

As one of the great thinkers of our time, Wolfhart Pannenberg has influenced the history of Christian theology and philosophy of religion since the second half of the 20th century. His Systematic Theology and many of his other works have become classics in the theological science.In this introduction Gunther Wenz examines the main pillars of Pannenberg's theology: the self-manifestation of God, the Trinitarian God, the creation of the world, Christology, anthropology, pneumatology, eschatology and ecclesiology. The book thereby offers a valuable guide to comprehending Pannenberg's Systematic Theology in the context of his most relevant writings.

Jesus - God and Man

Jesus - God and Man
Author:
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1982-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664244682

One of the most influential twentieth-century studies on the doctrine of Christ, this highly acclaimed work demonstrates Pannenberg's belief that at the heart of every Christian theology lies its teaching about Jesus Christ. The second edition, available for the first time in paperback, contains an Afterword in which the author reviews other theologians' responses to his thesis and methodology and shows the progression of his own interpretation.

The Postfoundationalist Task of Theology

The Postfoundationalist Task of Theology
Author: F. LeRon Shults
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1999
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780802846860

In recent years the theological writings of Wolfhart Pannenberg have exerted considerable influence. However, Pannenberg's work has also been criticized for not taking seriously the postmodern challenge to traditional conceptions of rationality and truth. This volume by F. LeRon Shults argues that the popular "foundationalist" reading of Pannenberg is a misinterpretation of his methodology and shows that, in fact, the structural dynamics of Pannenberg's approach offer significant resources for the postfoundationalist task of theology in our postmodern culture. Shults begins by laying out the first comprehensive summary and interpretation of the emerging postfoundationalist model of theological rationality. He then revisits Pannenberg's theological method and finds the German theologian to be a surprising ally in the quest to reconstruct a theological rationality along postfoundationalist lines. In the course of his discussion, Shults challenges views that see the future, reason, or history as the central concept of Pannenberg's thought and offers instead a new interpretation of Pannenberg's basic theological principle as understanding and explaining all things sub ratione Dei (under the aspect of the relation to God)-an interpretation endorsed by Pannenberg himself in the book's foreword. Shults also focuses on Pannenberg's unique way of linking philosophical and systematic theology and demonstrates how the underlying reciprocity of this method can carry over into the postfoundational concern to link hermeneutics and epistemology in the postmodern context.

Hope in Barth's Eschatology

Hope in Barth's Eschatology
Author: John C. McDowell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1351749447

This title was first published in 2000. Hope in Barth's Eschatology presents a critical investigation and survey of Karl Barth's writings, particularly his Church Dogmatics IV.3, in order to locate the character and nature of 'hope' within Barth's eschatology. Arguing that Barth, with his form of hope that refuses to shy away from the dark themes of the 'tragic vision', could be seen to undermine certain tragic sensibilities necessary for a healthy account of hope, John McDowell locates Barth within the context of larger traditions of theological thinking, and influential accounts of Christian hope, examining the work of Steiner, MacKinnon, Pannenberg, Rahner, Moltmanm and others. Addressing the relative neglect that Barth commentators have paid to eschatological themes, McDowell maintains that to miss what Barth is doing in his eschatology, is to seriously misunderstand Barth's broader theological sense. This book offers a significant contribution to the ongoing task of understanding Barth's theology whilst developing a way of reading hope and eschatology that, ultimately, places some critical questions at Barth's door.

Incarnation and Resurrection

Incarnation and Resurrection
Author: Paul D. Molnar
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2007-06-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802809987

For too long contemporary theology has downplayed the importance of holding together the incarnation and the resurrection when thinking theologically. Paul Molnar here surveys the place of these key doctrines in the thought of several influential theologians: Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Thomas F. Torrance, John Macquarrie, Gordon Kaufman, Sallie McFague, Roger Haight, John Hick, and Wolfhart Pannenberg. Molnar demonstrates that whenever the starting point for interpreting the resurrection is not Jesus himself, the incarnate Son of the Father, then Christology and Soteriology are undermined because they are not properly rooted in a plausible doctrine of the Trinity. Fair, comprehensive, and balanced, Molnar's analysis, following Torrance and Barth, highlights the details of contemporary theology of the resurrection linked to the incarnation and maintains the necessity of the incarnation in its intrinsic unity with the resurrection as the beginning, rather than the end, of Christology.

Behold the Man!

Behold the Man!
Author: Marion Lars Hendrickson
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1998
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780761810490

John Macquarrie explicates an anthropological Christology. Wolfhart Pannenberg holds to a Christological anthropology. Paradoxically, the two together provide a fuller understanding of both Christology and anthropology. The anthropological field upon which this book compares the two theologians' thought is essential to explicate a fully human Jesus to human beings and what this fully human Jesus reveals about God. With the anthropological setting in common, Macquarrie and Pannenberg pursue their Christology in such very different ways that they provide a compelling invitation for comparison.