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Chapter 4
   
The Reformation
 

The bibliography which follows is more detailed than in other chapters, given the particular interest many students have in the more recent aspects of Christian theology. The material to be presented is categorized under "Individual Theologians" and "Theological Movements since the Enlightenment."

 

Individual Theologians

 

There are numerous study aids available for those wishing to pursue details of individual theologians during the modern period. The following works are of fundamental importance.
For a survey of Christian thought and thinkers since the Enlightenment, see Alister E. McGrath (ed.), Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993).

For specialist studies of nineteenth-century Christian theology and theologians, see:
Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry and Steven T. Katz (eds), Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West, 3 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

Claude Welch, Protestant Thought in the Nineteenth Century, 2 vols (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972-85).

For valuable surveys of twentieth-century writers, see:
David F. Ford (ed.), The Modern Theologians (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2nd edn 1996).

Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson, Twentieth-Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1992).

For further details of many theologians active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, see Martin E. Marty and Dean G. Peerman, A Handbook of Christian Theologians (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1984).

 

The Enlightenment
 

Isaiah Berlin, Three Critics of the Enlightenment (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).

J. W. Burrow, The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000).

J. I. Irvine, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Roy Porter, The Creation of the Modern World: The British Enlightenment (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000).

Timothy J. Reiss, Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Isabel Rivers, Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780: Shaftesbury to Hume (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Theological Movements since the Enlightenment
Black Theology

A. B. Cleage, The Black Messiah (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1969).
James H. Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970).
-, For My People (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1986).

Dwight N. Hopkins, Black Theology, U.S.A. and South Africa (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1989).

Patrick A. Kalilombe, "Black Theology," in D. F. Ford (ed.), The Modern Theologians, 2 vols (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1990), vol. 2, pp. 193-216.

Joseph R. Washington, Black Religion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966).
-, The Politics of God: The Future of the Black Churches (Boston: Beacon Press, 1967).

Gayraud S. Wilmore and James H. Cone (eds), Black Theology: A Documentary History 1966-79 (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1979).

 

The Charismatic Movement and Pentecostalism

 

R. M. Anderson, Vision of the Disinherited: The Making of American Pentecostalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980).

Stanley M. Burgess, Gary B. McGee and Patrick H. Alexander (eds), Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1988).

Walter Hollenweger, The Pentecostals (London: SCM Press, 1972).
Killiam McDonnell, The Charismatic Movement and Ecumenism (New York: Paulist Press, 1978).

David Martin, Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990).

Richard Quebedeaux, The New Charismatics: The Origins, Development and Significance of Neo-Pentecostalism (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976).

Thomas A. Smail, Andrew Walker and Nigel Wright, Charismatic Renewal: The Search for a Theology (London: SPCK, 1993).

Russell P. Spitler (ed.), Perspectives on the New Pentecostalism (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1976).

Grant Wacker, Heaven Below : Early Pentecostals and American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).

C. Peter Wagner, The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit: Encountering the Power of Signs and Wonders Today (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant, 1988).

J. Rodman Williams, Renewal Theology, 3 vols (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1988-1992).

 

Eastern Orthodoxy
 

Frank Gavin, Some Aspects of Contemporary Greek Orthodox Thought (Milwaukee: Morehouse, 1923).

Aidan Nichols, Theology in the Russian Diaspora (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

Christos Yannaras, "Theology in Present-Day Greece," St Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 16/4 (1972), pp. 1-20.

Nicolas Zernov, The Russian Religious Renaissance of the Twentieth Century (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1963).

 

Evangelicalism

 

David W. Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989).

Donald G. Bloesch, The Essentials of Evangelical Theology, 2 vols (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978-9).

Judith L. Blumhofer and Joel A. Carpenter, Twentieth Century Evangelicalism: A Guide to the Sources (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990).

Walter A. Elwell (ed.), Handbook of Evangelical Theologians (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993).

Alister E. McGrath, Evangelicalism and the Future of Christianity (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1995; and London: Hodder & stoughton, 1994).

Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).

Kenneth s. Kantzer and Carl F. H. Henry , Evangelical Affirmations (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990), pp. 27-38.

David F. Wells and John D. Woodbridge (eds), The Evangelicals (Nashville: Abingdon, 1975).

Feminism

Marga Bührig, Woman Invisible (London: Bums & Oates, 1993).

Anne Carr, "Feminist Theology", in A. E. McGrath (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 220-8.

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Reconstruction of Christian Origins (New York: Crossroad, 1983).

Jacquelyn Grant, White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1989).

Daphne Hampson, Theology and Feminism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990).

Chung Hyun Kyung, Struggle to be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology (London: SCM Press, 1991).

Ann Loades, Feminist Theology: A Reader (London: SPCK, 1990).
-, "Feminist Theology," in D. F. Ford (ed.), The Modern Theologians, 2 vols (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1990), vol. 2, pp. 235-52.

Francis Martin, The Feminist Question: Feminist Theology in the Light of Christian Tradition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).

Judith Plaskow, Sex, Sin and Grace: Women's Experience and the Theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr amd Paul Tillich (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1980).

Rosemary Radford Ruether, Sexism and God-Talk: Towards a Feminist Christology (Boston: Beacon Press, 1983).

Letty M. Russell, Household of Freedom: Authority in Feminist Theology (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1987).

Susan Thistlethwaite, Sex, Race and God: Christian Feminism in Black and White (London: Chapman, 1990).

Pamela Dickey Young, Feminist Theology/Christian Theology: In Search of Method (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990).

Liberalism and Modernism

Kenneth Cauthen, The Impact of American Religious Liberalism (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1962).

Sheila Greeve Davaney and Delwin Brown, "Liberalism (USA)," in A. E. McGrath (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 325-30.

William R. Hutchinson (ed.), American Protestant Thought in the Liberal Era (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1968).

J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism (1923; reprinted Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).

Barry Penn Hollar, On Being the Church in the United States: Contemporary Theological Critiques of Liberalism (New York/Berne: Peter Lang, 1994).

John Ratte, Three Modernists: Alfred Loisy, George Tyrrell, William L. Sullivan (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1967).

Bernard M. G. Reardon, Roman Catholic Modernism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1970).
-, Liberal Protestantism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1968).

George Rupp, Culture Protestantism: German Liberal Theology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1977).

A. M. G. Stephenson, The Rise and Decline of English Modernism (London: SPCK, 1984).

David Tracy, Blessed Rage for Order: The New Pluralism in Theology (New York: Seabury Press, 1975).

Alec R. Vidler, The Modernist Movement in the Roman Church (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934).

Liberation Theology

  José Míguez Bonino, Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975).

Robert McAfee Brown, Theology in A New Key: Responding to Liberation Theology (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978).
-, Gustavo Gutiérrez: An Introduction to Liberation Theology (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1990).

Rebecca S. Chopp, "Latin American Liberation Theology," in D. F. Ford (ed.), The Modern Theologians,2 vols (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1989), vol. 2, pp. 173-92.

Samuel Escobar, "Liberation Theology," in A. E. McGrath (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 330-5.

Gustavo Gutiérrez, The Theology of Liberation, rev. edn (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1988).

J. Andrew Kirk, Liberation Theology: An Evangelical View from the Third World (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979).
 
Narrative Theology
  Gary Comstock, "Two Types of Narrative Theology ," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 55 (1987), pp. 687-717.

Mark Ellingsen, The Integrity of Biblical Narrative (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990).

David F. Ford, Barth and God's Story (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1985).

Hans Frei, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974).

Garrett Green (ed.), Scriptural Authority and Narrative Interpretation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986).

Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones (eds), Why Narrative? Readings in Narrative Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989).

L. Gregory Jones, "Narrative Theology," in A. E. McGrath (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 395-8.

James Wm. McClendon Jr, Biography as Theology (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1974).

H. Richard Niebuhr, The Meaning of Revelation (New York: Macmillan, 1941).

Dale Patrick, The Rendering of God in the Old Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981).

Robert Paul Roth, The Theater of God: Story in Christian Doctrines (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).

Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, The Nature of Narrative (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966).
 
Neo-Orthodoxy
  Eberhard Busch, Karl Barth: His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts (London: SCM Press, 1976).

Edward J. Carnell, The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1951).

Kenneth Durkin, Reinhold Niebuhr (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1989).

David F. Ford, "Karl Barth", in A. E. McGrath (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 30-4.

Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson, Twentieth-Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1992), pp. 63-112.

Paul King Jewett, Emil Brunner's Concept of Revelation (London: James Clarke, 1954).

Gareth Jones, Bultmann: Towards a Critical Theology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991).
 
Postliberalism
Sheila Greeve Davaney and Delwin Brown, "Postliberalism," in A. E. McGrath (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/ Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 453-6.

Hans Frei, The Identity of Jesus Christ (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975).

Paul Holmer, The Grammar of Faith (New York: Harper & Row, 1978).

David Kelsey, The Uses of Scripture in Recent Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress Press,1975).

George Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1984).

William C. Placher, Unapologetic Theology: A Christian Voice in a Pluralistic Conversation (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989).
-, "Postliberal Theology," in D. F. Ford (ed.), The Modern Theologians, 2 vols (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1989), vol. 2, pp. 115-28.

Ronald E. Thiemann, Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1985).
Postmodernism
Diogenes Allen, Christian Belief in a Postmodern World (Louisville; Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989).

Thomas J. Altizer, Genesis and Apocalypse: A Theological Voyage towards Authentic Christianity (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990).

Robert Detweiler, "Postmodernism," in A. E. McGrath (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 456-61.

Ihab Hassan, The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982),

Edgar V. McKnight, Post-Modern Use of the Bible: The Emergence of Reader-Orientated Criticism (Nashville: Abingdon, 1988).

Nancey Murphy and James Wm. McClendon, Jr, "Distinguishing Modern and Postmodern Theologies," Modern Theology 5 (1989), pp. 191-214.

Thomas C. Oden, After Modernity ...What? Agenda for Theology (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990).

Gary A. Philips (ed.), Poststructural Criticism and the Bible (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1990).

Mark C. Taylor, Erring: A Postmodern A/Theology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984).
Roman Catholicism
William V. Dych, Karl Rahner (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1992).
Francis F. Fiorenze and John P. Galvin, Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives, 2 vols (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991); also published as single-volume edition (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1992).

Sheridan Gilley, Newman and His Age (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1990).

Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson, Twentieth-Century Theology (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1992), pp. 237-70.

Philip Kennedy, Schillebeeckx (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1993).

Ian Ker, The Achievement of John Henry Newman (London: Collins, 1990). Catherine M. LaCugna, The Theological Methodology of Hans Kung (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982).

Gerald A. McCool, Catholic Theology in the Nineteenth Century: The Quest for a Unitary Method (New York: Fordham University Press, 1977).

Aidan Nichols, Yves Congar (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1989).
Robert Nowell, A Passion for Truth: Hans Kung and His Theology (New York: Crossroad, 1981).

John J. O'Donnell, Hans Urs von Balthasar (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1992).

Thomas F. O'Meara, Romantic Idealism and Roman Catholicism (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1982).

Bernard M. G. Reardon, Roman Catholic Modernism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1970).

Herbert Vorgrimler, Understanding Karl Rahner: An Introduction to his Life and Thought (New York: Crossroad, 1986).

Edward J. Yarnold, "Roman Catholic Theology," in A. E. McGrath (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 562-73.
Regional Theologies
Kofi Appiah-Kubi and sergio Torres (eds), African Theology en route (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1979).

Robin S. H. Boyd, Introduction to Indian Christian Theology , 2nd edn (Madras: CLT , 1974).

William A. Dryness (ed.), Emerging Voices in Global Theology (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995).
-, Learning about Theology from the Third World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992).

Elizabeth Isichei, A History of Christianity in Africa (London: SPCK, 1995).

Jung Young Lee, "Korean Christian Thought," in A. E. McGrath (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 308-13.

Kosuke Koyama, " Asian Theology," in D. F. Ford (ed.), The Modern Theologians, 2 vols (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1990), vol. 2, pp. 217-34.

Stephen Charles Neill, A History of Christianity in India, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984-5).

John Parratt (ed.), A Reader in African Christian Theology (London: SPCK, 1987).

C. S. Song, Third-Eye Theology: Theology in Formation in Asian Settings, rev. edn (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1990).

R. S. Sugirtharajah and C. Hargreaves (eds), Readings in Indian Christian Theology (London: SPCK, 1993).

Shunici Takayanagi, "Japanese Christian Thought," in A. E. McGrath (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 280-4.

Carver T. Yu, "Chinese Christian Thought," in A. E. McGrath (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought (Oxford/Cambridge