The Modern Theologians Reader

The Modern Theologians Reader will be an accompaniment to the third edition of The Modern Theologians (ed. David F. Ford with Rachel Muers), designed to follow the latter closely in length and structure. As well as standing on its own as a wide-ranging and enjoyable sampler of modern theology, the Reader will make the main volume even more useful as a class textbook, enabling students and teachers conveniently to study appropriate primary texts in tandem with their reading of the main volume's commentary. We therefore expect not only that it will sell well on the coat-tails of the main volume, but that because the two volumes together are an even richer and more useful resource than either on its own, it will increase sales of the main volume. Key features The Reader's key features will be: 'ˆ— Convenience: it will collect a wide range of primary source materials in one volume; 'ˆ— Pedagogical richness: it will allow students and teachers to combine their study of the commentaries in the main volume with their own scrutiny of texts on which those commentaries are based; and 'ˆ— Ease of use: provide introductory notes and annotations to each extract to help students understand the relevance and importance of each extract; A general introduction will set out the relationship of the Reader to the main volume, and will also provide a guide to reading primary texts: some tips and ideas for how to study the materials in the rest of the book. Each extract will be prefaced by a few lines which explain where the text is from and why it has been included. Footnotes will be used to point out important features and explain particularly difficult points, and key words will be linked to a glossary at the end of the volume.Structure For each chapter of the main volume, we will provide a small number of extracts from the relevant modern theologian or theologians, chosen in order to demonstrate how the key themes discussed in that chapter are played out in detail in the primary source materials.

David F. Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books, including The Future of Christian Theology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love (2007), Shaping Theology: Engagements in a Religious and Secular World (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918, 3^rd edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), and Theology: A Very Short Introduction (2000). He also directs the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme and is a member of the editorial board of Modern Theology, Scottish Journal of Theology, and other major journals.

Mike Higton is Academic Co-Director of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme at the University of Cambridge, and Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter. His recent books include Christian Doctrine (2008), Difficult Gospel: The Theology of Rowan Williams (2004), and Christ, Providence and History: Hans W. Frei's Public Theology (2004).

Simeon Zahl is Junior Research Fellow in Theology at St John's College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Pneumatology and Theology of the Cross in the Preaching of Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (2010), and is currently at work on a book on the affections in Lutheran theology.

Part 1 Classics of the 20th Century. 1 Karl Barth. 2 Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 3 Paul Tillich. 4 Henri de Lubac. 5 Karl Rahner. 6 Hans Urs von Balthasar. Part 2 Theological Responses to Modernity in Europe and the USA. Section A Germany. 7 Wolfhart Pannenberg. 8 Jurgen Moltmann. Section B Britain. 9 T.F. Torrance. 10 Anglican Theology. Section C The USA. 11 H. Richard Niebuhr. 12 Reinhold Niebuhr. 13 Revisionists and Liberals. Section D The Contemporary Scene: Reappropriating Traditions. 14 Postliberal Theology. 15 Systematic theology after Barth: Jungel, Jenson, Gunton. 16 Roman Catholic Theology after Vatican II. Section E Texts, Truth and Signification. 17 Biblical Interpretation. 18 Philosophical Theology. 19 Postmodern Theology. Part 3 Theology and the Sciences. 20 Theology and the physical sciences. 21 Theology and the biological sciences. 22 Theology and the social sciences. Part 4 Theology, prayer and practice. 23 Theology and Spirituality. 24 Pastoral and Practical Theology. Part 5 Particularizing Theology . 25 Feminism, Gender and Theology. 26 Black Theology of Liberation. 27 Latin American Liberation Theology. 28 African Theology. 29 Theologies of South Asia. 30 Theologies of East Asia. 31 Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation. Part 6 Global Engagements. 32 Ecumenical Theology. 33 Eastern Orthodox Theology. 34 Pentecostal Theology. 35 Evangelical Theology. Part 7 Theology Between Faiths. 36 Theology of Religions. 37 Judaism and Christian Theology. 38 Islam and Christian Theology. 39 Buddhism and Christian Theology. Part 8 Theology in Many Media. 40 Theology and the visual arts. 41 Theology and music. 42 Theology and film. Each of the 42 chapters will be given a total of c. 9000 words for extracts (including introductory notes and annotations): total 378,000. The general introduction and glossary will bring the total up to c.385,000.