The Student's Companion to the Theologians.

Intro -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- I. Purpose of This Book -- I. Selection -- II. Invitation to Participation -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Early Centuries -- The Apocalypse of John -- Arius (c.256-336) -- Life -- II. Writings -- Theology -- III. Significance -- Athanasius (c.295-373) -- Life -- II. Works -- Theology -- Significance -- Augustine of Hippo (c.354-430) -- Life -- II. Theology -- II. Writings -- Boethius (c.475-c.524) -- I. Life and Context -- I. Intellectual Influences and Program -- Logic in the Service of Theology -- II. The Consolation of Philosophy -- The Cappadocians (c.329-c.524) -- Basil of Caesarea -- Gregory of Nazianzus -- Gregory of Nyssa -- Cyril of Alexandria (c.378-444) and Nestorius of Constantinople (c.381-c.451) -- Introduction -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Nestorius of Constantinople -- Conclusion -- Ephrem the Syrian (c.306-73) -- I. Life -- I. Theology -- Ignatius of Antioch (c.35-c.110) -- Irenaeus of Lyons (2nd century) -- Divine Intellect -- Salvation History/Economy -- Summing up/Recapitulation -- Participation -- John the Evangelist -- Introduction -- II. Theological Context and History of the Johannine Writings -- II. Theological Method and Message in John -- II. The Theological Agenda: Seeking the Truth -- II. Postscript: Johannine Effects -- Marcion (c.85-c.160) -- Maximos the Confessor (580-662) -- Life -- II. Works -- III. Ascetical Works -- II. Dogmatic Works -- II. Exegetical Works -- III. Liturgical Works -- II. Epistles -- III. Scholia to Corpus Dionysiacum -- Hagiography -- III. Theology -- Influence -- Origen (c.185-254) -- Life -- II. Writings -- II. Theology -- II. Significance -- The Apostle Paul -- The Apostle Paul in His Immediate Context -- II. The Letters of Paul as Sources for Understanding His Theology.

II. Overall Theological Issues in Paul -- III. Conclusion -- The Synoptic Evangelists:Mark, Matthew, and Luke -- Introduction -- II. Mark -- II. Matthew -- II. Luke -- Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) (c.155-c.225) -- I. His Literary Works -- I. The New Prophecy -- II. Tradition -- I. Scripture -- II. Doctrinal Foundations -- I. Manuscripts -- Middle Ages -- Peter Abelard (1079-1142) -- St Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) -- Life -- II. Method -- III. Theology -- II. Significance -- Thomas Aquinas, OP (c.1224-74) -- Life -- II. Early Education -- II. Thomas and Aristotelian Philosophy -- University Studies -- III. Teacher and Writer -- III. Thomas the Intellectual Mystic -- Modern Influence -- Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) -- Bonaventure (c.1217-74) -- I. Life -- I. Works -- II. Theology -- Duns Scotus (c.1266-1308) -- Background -- II. Christocentrism and the Immaculate Conception -- II. Theological Language -- III. Divine Infinity and the Formal Distinction -- II. The Metaphysics of the Trinity -- II. God's Existence -- II. The Proof for the Trinity -- II. God's Knowledge and Will, Ethics, and Human Freedom -- Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1416) -- William Ockham (c.1280-c.1349) -- Conclusion -- Reformation Period -- John Calvin (1509-64) -- Introduction -- II. Key Influences -- Richard Hooker (1554-1600) -- I. Hooker's Life and Context -- I. Summary -- Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) -- The Reformation -- Introduction -- II. Historical Background -- II. Issues Common to the Reformation Movements -- II. Major Reformation Figures -- II. Progress of Reform in Some Specific Countries -- II. Historiography of the Terms "Reformation" and "Counter-Reformation" -- Teresa of Ávila (1515-82) -- Enlightenment and Modern Period -- Donald Baillie (1887-1954) -- The Early Years -- II. Faith in God.

II. A Preaching Ministry -- III. The Later 1930s -- II. 1939-54 -- II. Theology of the Sacraments -- II. What Is the Church? -- III. The Sermons -- IV. Conclusion -- John Baillie (1886-1960) -- The Roots of Religion in the Human Soul (1926) -- The Interpretation of Religion (1929) -- The Place of Jesus Christ in Modern Christianity -- Our Knowledge of God (1939) -- Invitation to Pilgrimage (1942) -- Karl Barth (1886-1968) -- Emil Brunner (1889-1966) -- I. Life -- I. Theology -- II. Anthropology, Eristics, and Social Ethics -- I. Significance -- John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) -- Introduction -- II. Locating the Life -- III. Theology -- II. Significance -- Georges Vasilievich Florovsky (1893-1979) -- Summary -- II. Life -- II. Theological Legacy -- II. Conclusion -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) -- Biography -- II. Reading and Interpreting Hegel -- II. Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom -- III. Hegel's Early Theological Writings -- IV. The Beginning of Hegel's System: The Recasting of Kantian Critical Philosophy -- II. Hegel's Logic -- III. The Phenomenology of Spirit -- Hegel's Philosophy of Religion -- III. Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion -- IV. Hegel's Legacy -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) -- Biography -- II. Kierkegaard's Anti-Hegelianism -- II. Characteristics of Kierkegaard's Writings -- III. Kierkegaard's Writings -- II. Kierkegaard's Legacy -- C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963) -- Introduction and Biography -- II. Theology -- II. Conclusion -- John Henry Newman (1801-90) -- I. Background -- I. Newman's Theology -- II. The Arians of the Fourth Century -- I. The Sermons -- I. The Oxford Tracts -- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) -- Overview -- II. Career -- II. Theology and Politics -- II. Legacy -- Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834) -- I. Life -- II. On Religion.

III. The Christian Faith -- I. Significance -- Gottfried Thomasius (1802-75) -- Background -- II. Life and Works -- II. Thomasius's Theology -- II. Thomasius's Achievement -- Paul Tillich (1886-1965) -- Biography -- II. What Is Theology? -- II. Revelation -- III. Doctrine of God -- Anthropology -- III. Christology -- III. Spirit -- IV. Church -- III. Reception and Influence -- B. B. Warfield (1851-1921) -- I. Life -- II. Theology -- III. Significance -- Twentieth Century to Present -- Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88) -- Theological Habits of Mind -- The Trinitarian Ground of Being -- Holiness and Truth -- Serge Laugier de Beaurecueil (1917-2005) -- Introduction -- II. Life, Study, and Work -- Black Theology -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45) -- A Fragmentary yet Fulfilled Life -- Christ the Centre -- A Theology of Sociality -- Confessing Christ Here and Now -- The Ethics of Free Responsibility -- Christianity in a World Come of Age -- James Cone (1938- ) -- Austin Farrer (1904-68) -- Hans Frei (1922-88) -- Colin Gunton (1941-2003) -- Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928- ) -- I. Life -- II. Theology -- I. Significance -- Stanley Hauerwas (1940- ) -- I. Career -- I. Inner Dynamic -- II. Key Theological and Philosophical Debates -- I. Significance -- John Hick (1922-2012) -- Introduction -- II. Life -- II. Key Themes and Contributions -- II. General Assessment -- Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ (1941- ) -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68) -- I. Theology -- Key Influences of King's Theology of Love and Passive Resistance -- II. Theological Summary -- Liberal Theology -- The Challenge of Hume and Kant -- The Beginning of the Modern Liberal Theological Response -- George Lindbeck (1923- ) -- Donald MacKinnon (1913-94) -- John Milbank (1952- ) -- Jürgen Moltmann (1926- ) -- I. Life -- I. Context -- II. Moltmann's Theology -- I. Writings -- II. Major Themes -- I. Significance.

II. Methodological Variety -- Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009) -- James Packer (1926- ) -- I. Life -- II. Theology -- I. Influence -- Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928- ) -- Background -- II. Revelation and History -- II. Christology -- II. Theology and Sciences -- III. Anthropology -- II. Systematic Theology -- III. Conclusion -- Charles Philip Price (1920-99) -- Background -- II. Theology -- Process Theology -- Charles Hartshorne -- Process Theology and Providence -- Karl Rahner (1904-84) -- Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936- ) -- Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (1938- ) -- Dorothee Sölle (1929-2003) -- Richard Swinburne (1934- ) -- I. Biography -- II. Principal Theological Arguments -- I. Criticism -- II. Assessment -- Vatican II -- The Council's Eve -- Pope John's Call -- The Debate -- Conceptualist Thomism -- Overcoming Past Opponents -- The Difficulties -- The Council's Texts -- Revelation -- Ecclesiology -- Transcendental Thomism -- Difficulties -- What Did the Council Achieve? -- Keith Ward (1938- ) -- I. Life -- II. Theology -- I. Significance -- Glossary -- Index.

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