Understanding Pannenberg

Understanding Pannenberg
Author: Anthony C. Thiselton
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2018-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532641273

Wolfhart Pannenberg has forever changed the face of twentieth-century theology. His book on Christology constituted a turning-point away from Bultmann's existentialist theology, and convincingly vindicated belief in the bodily resurrection of Jesus and its importance for theology. His numerous other works, especially his Systematic Theology, Theological Anthropology, and Theology and the Philosophy of Science, show both depth of learning and an unsurpassed and enviable range of interests. This book aims to explain the vast scope of Pannenberg's thought, his understanding of the sovereignty and majesty of the God as the God of all reality (not only Israel and the church), who also revealed himself in Jesus Christ. Jesus is not simply the pre-resurrection Jesus of many Gospel narratives, but the raised and exalted Christ of the whole New Testament. Pannenberg shines a light on the centrality of futurity, and of the whole of reality in God's purposes. Meaning becomes clear in the light of the whole, as his hermeneutics explains. He expounds the role of God as Trinity and the Holy Spirit. His vision of God and the whole world is breath-taking, and often heartening and practical.

Systematic Theology

Systematic Theology
Author: Wolfhart Pannenberg
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 748
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802837080

The publication of Volume 3 of German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg's Systematic Theology completes the English edition of a work that will surely come to stand as one of the lasting theological statements of the twentieth century.

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.

Toward a Theology of Nature

Toward a Theology of Nature
Author: Wolfhart Pannenberg
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664253844

Pannenberg poses theological questions to natural scientists that illuminate his personal position on issues dealing with theology and the natural sciences, especially physics, reviewing the relationship between natural law and contingency, the importance of the spirit in the phenomenon of life, field theory, language, and the theological account for the nature of God and God's creative activity.

Pannenberg: A Guide for the Perplexed

Pannenberg: A Guide for the Perplexed
Author: Timothy Bradshaw
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2009-08-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567032558

Wolfhart Pannenberg is one of the most challenging contemporary theologians for students to study. This Guide for the Perplexed, explains his school of thought and overall ideas in a comprehensive and accessible form.

Pannenberg on the Triune God

Pannenberg on the Triune God
Author: Iain Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2007-05-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567005925

This book treats Pannenberg's stated ambition to write 'a theology more thoroughly Trinitarian than any I know of'. It evaluates it by answering two questions: What does Pannenberg mean by his theology being thoroughly Trinitarian? How far has his subsequent work, especially Systematic Theology, been successful in realizing his stated goal?

The Apostles Creed In Light of Today's Questions

The Apostles Creed In Light of Today's Questions
Author: Wolfhart Pannenberg
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2000-06-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1579104401

"It is not enough to recite the Apostles' Creed; one must enter into its statements enquiringly, reflectively, critically." Today's Christian may repeat the Apostles' Creed Sunday after Sunday; but couched as it s in archaic language, its meaning is often lost to him. "In spite of that," says Dr. Pennenberg, "we can still repeat the creed in church without doing violence to our personal sincerity as long as we are able to adhere to the intention behind its statements." (Take from jacket cover.).

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.

From the Future: Getting to Grips with Pannenberg's Thought

From the Future: Getting to Grips with Pannenberg's Thought
Author: John McClean
Publisher: Authentic Media Inc
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014-08-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1780783086

The study of anticipation exposes the structure of Pannenberg's thought in important theological areas and opens up significant avenues for critical discussion of his thought. This book gives an exposition of Wolfhart Pannenberg's thought by tracing the important theme of anticipation. The recognition of the importance to Pannenberg of the challenge of philosophical atheism and the way in which anticipation enables him to overcome this challenge gives a vantage point from which it becomes possible to discern what Pannenberg is attempting to achieve in much of this project. The theme of anticipation is a key to his theological project, and the book traces it through the doctrines of revelation, Christ, redemption and God.

Transcendence and Understanding

Transcendence and Understanding
Author: Zdenko S. Sirka
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2020-03-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532678096

This book brings into conversation Western and Orthodox hermeneutical schools: one represented by Hans-Georg Gadamer and his followers, while the other school is less focused around one person and yet displays common distinct features. The main question of the book is how we can mediate not only the content of understanding of who we are in relation to each other, to the world in which we live, and to God, but also comprehend the process of understanding across various historical periods. The strengths and weaknesses of both positions are presented, and it is shown how these two hermeneutical approaches can enrich each other. The book argues that preserving both positions, and indicating how they complement each other, helps show the limits of encountering the transcendent reality that can be testified to by human language without being reduced to it as such.