Author(s): Joshua M. Moritz (Editor), Derek R. Nelson (Editor), Ted Peters (Editor)
Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
Publication Date: 1 Feb. 2013
Language: English
Print length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0800698800
ISBN-13: 9780800698805
Book Description
Theologians in Their Own Words is a volume of 24 brief, straight-forward autobiographical statements from many of the most important theologians and scholars of religion of recent decades. Each contributor sets out to discuss the development of their central insights and convictions in light of their life stories. The volume includes both previously published selections from Dialog: A Journal of Theology, as well as pieces specially commissioned for this volume. Included in the renowned and diverse list of contributors: Marilyn McCord Adams, Harvey Cox, Gerhard Forde, George Forell, Roger Haight, Philip Hefner, Robert Jenson, Ernst Käsemann, Martin Marty, Alister McGrath, Nancey Murphy, WolfhartPannenberg, Marion Pauck, Ted Peters, Clark Pinnock, John Polkinghorne, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Letty Russell, H. Paul Santmire, Hans Schwarz, Huston Smith, Paul Sponheim, Kathryn Tanner, Ronald Thiemann, and N.T. Wright.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Derek R. Nelson is associate professor of Religion at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He is the author of Sin: A Guide for the Perplexed (2011) and What’s Wrong with Sin: Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation (2009) as well as many articles in theology and the philosophy of religion. Joshua M. Moritz is managing editor of the journal Theology and Science and post-doctoral research associate at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He is also director of the Considering God s Works project of the Templeton Foundation funded Scientists in Congregations Initiative at Berkeley Covenant Church. Ted Peters teaches systematic theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is author of The Stem Cell Debate (Fortress Press, 2007), God: The World’s Future (rev. ed., 2000); and he is co-editor of Bridging Science and Religion (2003) as well as The Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology (2005). Formerly the editor of Dialog, A Journal of Theology, he now serves as co-editor of Theology and Science.
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