Low Price Guarantee
We Take School POs
Protestant Theology at the Crossroads: How to Face the Crucial Tasks for Theology in the Twenty-First Century
Contributor(s): Sauter, Gerhard (Author)

View larger image

ISBN: 0802840345     ISBN-13: 9780802840349
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Retail: $25.50OUR PRICE: $18.62  
  Buy 25 or more:OUR PRICE: $17.09   Save More!
  Buy 100 or more:OUR PRICE: $16.32   Save More!


  WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD!   Click here for our low price guarantee

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2007
Qty:

Annotation: Crucial tasks face protestant theology in its currently critical state. Challenged with growing skepticism and discouragement, what hope has theology for the future, and what sources might deliver this hope? Gerhard Sauter sets himself to help theology answer critical questions and accomplish essential tasks in order to move forward with hope.

"Protestant Theology at the Crossroads" examines contextual theology, in which particular cultural heritages, race and gender, and economic conditions and the structure of social life inform the teachings of the faith rather than vice versa. How, for example, do we approach the crisis in American self-understanding caused by terrorism? Do changes in European politics change our theological perceptions?

Drawing on the Warfield Lectures at Princeton in March 2000 -- at which many of these chapters were presented originally -- "Protestant Theology" does more than provide a much-needed overall explanation of the issues theology faces. It also contains basic information on the foundation of theology, hermeneutics, Christian ethics, many central doctrinal topics, and much more. This book is a vital text for those studying theology, involved in ministry, and training future church leaders.

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
Dewey: 230.044
LCCN: 2006039416
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.06" W x 8.92" L (0.66 lbs) 212 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Theometrics - Academic
Features: Index, Table of Contents
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
In an atmosphere of growing skepticism and discouragement, what hope has theology for the future, and what sources might deliver that hope? In this astute analysis of Protestant theology today, Gerhard Sauter sets himself to help theology answer critical questions and accomplish crucial tasks in order to move forward with hope. Protestant Theology at the Crossroads examines contextual theology, in which particular cultural heritages, race and gender, economic conditions, and the structure of social life inform the teachings of the faith rather than vice versa. How, for example, do we approach the crisis in American self-understanding caused by terrorism? Do changes in European politics alter our theological perceptions? Sauter argues that dogmatics -- properly understood as the process of theological reasoning that supports the life of the church -- can and should be used as the tool to save theology. Dogmatics, he says, can break through pious isolationism and converge with genuine public theology, leading to the church's understanding of its own essence.

Contributor Bio(s): Sauter, Gerhard: - Gerhard Sauter is professor of systematic and ecumenicaltheology and director emeritus of the Ecumenical Institutein the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University ofBonn, Germany.
 
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review
 
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First!