Readings in the History of Christian Theology, Volume 2, Revised Edition : : From the Reformation to the Present.

• Author: Placher, William C.
• TeilnehmendeR: Nelson, Derek R.
• Place / Publishing House: Louisville, KY : : Presbyterian Publishing Corporation,, 2017.; ©2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 pages)

William Placher and Derek Nelson compile significant passages written by the most important Christian thinkers, from the Reformers of the sixteenth century through the major participants in the contemporary theological conversation. Illustrating the major theologians, controversies, and schools of thought, Readings in the History of Christian.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1. Luther and the Radical Reformation -- Martin Luther The Freedom of a Christian -- Ulrich Zwingli An Account of the Faith of Zwingli -- Martin Luther That These Words of Christ, "This Is My Body," etc., Still Stand Firm against the Fanatics -- George Blaurock The Hutterite Chronicle -- Thomas Müntzer Sermon before the Princes -- The Schleitheim Confession of Faith -- Menno Simons Menno Simons' Life and Writings -- The Formula of Concord -- 2. The Catholic Reformation -- Consilium de Emendanda Ecclesia -- Thomas de Vio, Cardinal Cajetan Faith and Works-Against the Lutherans -- Council of Trent Decree concerning Justification -- Ignatius Loyola Rules for Thinking with the Church -- Teresa of Ávila The Life of Teresa of Jesus -- Francisco Suárez A Work on the Three Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Charity -- Blaise Pascal Pensées -- 3. Calvin and the English Reformation -- John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion -- The Five Arminian Articles -- The Canons of the Synod of Dort -- John Knox History of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland -- Richard Hooker The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity -- Thomas Cartwright A Reply to an Answer Made of Master Doctor Whitgift against the Admonition to Parliament -- Gerrard Winstanley The Law of Freedom in a Platform -- George Fox Journal -- 4. Theology in the Enlightenment -- John Locke The Reasonableness of Christianity -- Matthew Tindal Christianity as Old as the Creation -- Philip Jacob Spener Pia Desideria -- John Wesley The Scripture Way of Salvation -- John Wesley Predestination Calmly Considered -- David Hume Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.

Gotthold Lessing On the Proof of the Spirit and of Power -- Immanuel Kant Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone -- 5. Theology in America -- John Winthrop A Model of Christian Charity -- Thomas Hooker The Activity of Faith: or, Abraham's Imitators -- Jonathan Edwards Personal Narrative -- David Walker Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of the Religion of Jesus Christ -- William Ellery Channing The Essence of the Christian Religion -- Charles Grandison Finney Lectures on Revivals of Religion -- Sarah M. Grimké Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Divinity School Address -- Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures -- Joseph Smith King Follett Discourse -- Horace Bushnell Christian Nurture -- 6. The Nineteenth Century -- Friedrich Schleiermacher On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers -- David Friedrich Strauss The Life of Jesus Critically Examined -- Ludwig Feuerbach Lectures on the Essence of Religion -- Søren Kierkegaard Attack upon "Christendom" -- First Vatican Council First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ -- John Henry Newman Apologia Pro Vita Sua -- Adolf Harnack What Is Christianity? -- Albert Schweitzer The Quest of the Historical Jesus -- Ernst Troeltsch The Place of Christianity among the World Religions -- Charles Hodge Systematic Theology -- 7. Theology at the End of Christendom -- Karl Barth Church Dogmatics -- The Barmen Declaration -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison -- Reinhold Niebuhr Christianity and Power Politics -- Rudolf Bultmann New Testament and Mythology -- Paul Tillich Systematic Theology -- Second Vatican Council Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World -- Karl Rahner In Search of a Short Formula of the Christian Faith.

Alfred North Whitehead Process and Reality -- 8. Theology, Identity, and Liberation -- Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail -- James H. Cone Black Theology in American Religion -- Delores Williams Sisters in the Wilderness -- Rosemary Radford Ruether Mother Earth and the Megamachine -- Gustavo Gutiérrez Liberation Praxis and Christian Faith -- Leonardo Boff Ecclesiogenesis: The Base Communities Reinvent the Church -- Ivan Petrella Beyond Liberation Theology: A Polemic -- John Mbiti The Encounter of Christian Faith and African Religion -- C. S. Song The Cross and the Lotus -- Evgeny Barabanov The Schism between the Church and the World -- John Milbank Postmodern Critical Augustinianism -- 9. The Current Scene -- Eberhard Jüngel God as the Mystery of the World -- Sarah Coakley Powers and Submissions -- Jürgen Moltmann The Crucified God -- Wolfhart Pannenberg Jesus-God and Man -- David Bentley Hart The Doors of the Sea -- Mercy Amba Oduyoye Who Will Roll the Stone Away? -- Lesslie Newbigin The Gospel in a Pluralist Society -- John Polkinghorne Theology in the Context of Science -- Elizabeth Johnson Quest for the Living God -- Index.