Volume 2 of New Theology consists of lively debate, new research, analytical reportage, and hard thinking on various issues on the academic discipline of the study of the nature of God and religious belief.
Contents:
I: The Problem of God and the Godless -- C.B. Armstrong Christianity Without Religion; William O. Fennell The Theology of True Secularity; Langdon B. Gilkey A New Linguistic Madness; James W. Woelfel "Non-metaphysical" Christian Philosophy and Linguistic Philosophy; David Jenkins Whither the Doctrine of God Now?
II: Nature and Law -- Douglass Sturm Naturalism, Historicism, and Christian Ethics: Toward a Christian Doctrine of Natural Law; Alexander Carlebach Autonomy and Reason in Judaism; Stanley S. Harakas The Natural Law Teaching of the Eastern Orthodox Church; E.R. Baltazar Teilhard de Chardin: A Philosophy of Procession
III: The Churches in Relation -- Krister Stendahl Judaism and Christianity: Then and Now; William Nicholis The Significance of the Ecumenical Councils; George A. Lindbeck Ecclesiology and Roman Catholic Renewal
IV: Biblical Trends -- Harvey K. McArthur A Survey of Recent Gospel Research; P. Joseph Cahill, S.J. Rudolf Bultmann and Post-Bultmann Tendencies
V: Extension of Theology -- John B. Cobb, Jr. A New Trio Arises in Europe; M. Richard Shaull The Form of the Church in the Modern Diaspora; William Stringfellow Through Dooms of Love; Robert Detweiler Christ and the Christ Figure in American Literature
Edited by Martin E. Marty and Dean G. Peerman
About the Author
Martin Marty, one of today's most respected theologians, is professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, where the Martin Marty Center has been founded to promote public religion endeavors. His more than fifty books include Modern American Religion. He is a winner of the National Book Award and was the first religion scholar to receive the National Humanities Medal.