Preface An Important Note for All Readers but Especially for Professors and Scholars Introduction 1. Modernity Challenges Traditional Theology: The Context of Early Modern Theology 1.a. Science Revises the Heavens 1.b. Philosophers Lay New Foundations for Knowledge 1.c. Deists Create a New Natural Religion 1.
d. Critical Philosophers Limit Religion to Reason 1.e. Realists, Romanticists and Existentialists Respond 2. Liberal Theologies Reconstruct Christianity in Light of Modernity 2.a. Friedrich Schleiermacher Launches a Copernican Revolution in Theology 2.b.
Albrecht Ritschl and His Disciples Accommodate to Modernity 2.c. Ernst Troeltsch Relativizes Christianity 2.d. Catholic Modernists Attempt to Bring Rome up to Date 3. Conservative Protestant Theology Defends Orthodoxy in a Modern Way 4. Mediating Theologies Build Bridges between Orthodoxy and Liberalism 4.a.
Isaak August Dorner Bridges the Gap between Liberal and Orthodox Theologies 4.b. Horace Bushnell Searches for a Progressive Orthodoxy 5. Neo-Orthodox/Dialectical/Kerygmatic Theologies Revive the Reformation in the Modern Context 5.a. Karl Barth Drops a Bombshell on the Theologians' Playground 5.b. Rudolf Bultmann Existentializes and Demythologizes Christianity 5.
c. Reinhold Niebuhr Rediscovers Original Sin and Develops Christian Realism 6. Chastened Liberal Theologies Renew and Revise the Dialogue with Modernity 6.a. Paul Tillich Describes God as the Ground of Being, a "God above God" 6.b. Process Theology Brings God Down to Earth 7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Radical Theologians Envision a Religionless Christianity 8.
Theologians Look to the Future with Hope 8.a. Jürgen Moltmann Renews Confidence in the Final Triumph of God 8.b. Wolfhart Pannenberg Revitalizes Rational Faith in History?s God 9. Liberation Theologies Protest Injustice and Oppression 10. Catholic Theologians Engage with Modernity 10.a.
Karl Rahner Finds God in Human Experience 10.b. Hans Küng Advocates a New Paradigm of Catholic Theology 10.c. Hans Urs von Balthasar Bases Christian Truth on Beauty 11. Evangelical Theology Comes of Age and Wrestles with Modernity 12. Postmodern Theologians Rebel against Modernity 12.a.
Postliberal Theologians and Stanley Hauerwas Develop a Third Way in Theology 12.b. John Caputo Deconstructs Religion with the Kingdom of God Conclusion Index.