Contributor
Placher, William C. (William Carl), 1948-2008.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:Philadelphia, Pa. : Westminster Press, c1988.
Description213 p. ; c23 cm.
Note:1. LUTHER AND THE RADICAL REFORMATION. The freedom of a Christian / Martin Luther ; An account of the faith of Zwingli / Ulrich Zwingli ; That these words of Christ, "This is my body," etc., still stand firm against the fanatics / Martin Luther ; The Hutterite Chronicle / George Blaurock ; Sermon before the princes / Thomas Muntzer ; The Schleitheim Confession of Faith ; The writings of Menno Simons / Menno Simons ; The formula of concord -- 2. THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION. Consilium de Emendanda Ecclesia ; Faith and works: against the Lutherans / Thomas de Vio, Cardinal Cajetan ; Decree concerning justification / Council of Trent ; Rules for thinking with the Church / Ignatius Loyola ; The life of Teresa of Jesus / Teresa of Avila ; A work on the three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity / Francisco Suarez ; Pensees / Blaise Pascal -- 3. CALVIN AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION. Institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin ; The five Arminian articles ; The canons of the Synod of Dort ; History of the Reformation of religion within the realm of Scotland / John Knox ; The laws of ecclesiastical polity / Richard Hooker ; A reply to an answer made of Master Doctor Whitgift against the admonition to Parliament / Thomas Cartwright ; The law of freedom in a platform / Gerrard Winstanley ; Journal / George Fox -- 4. THEOLOGY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT. The reasonableness of Christianity / John Locke ; Christianity as old as the creation / Matthew Tindal ; Pia Desideria / Philip Jacob Spener ; The scriptural way of salvation / John Wesley ; Predestination calmly considered / John Wesley ; Dialogues concerning natural religion / David Hume ; On the proof of the Spirit and of power / Gotthold Lessing ; Religion: within the limits of reason alone / Immanuel Kant -- 5. THEOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES. A model of Christian charity / John Winthrop ; The activity of faith: or, Abraham's imitators / Thomas Hooker ; Personal narrative / Jonathan Edwards ; Our wretchedness in consequence of the preachers of the religion of Jesus Christ / David Walker ; The essence of the Christian religion / William Ellery Channing ; Lectures on revivals of religion / Charles Grandison Finney ; Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of woman / Sarah M. Grimke ; The divinity school address / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Science and health with key to the scriptures / Mary Baker Eddy ; King Follett discourse ; Christian nurture / Horace Bushnell -- 6. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. On religion: speeches to its cultured despisers / Friederich Schleiermacher ; The life of Jesus critically examined / David Friedrich Strauss ; Lectures on the essence of religion / Ludwig Feuerbach ; Attack upon "Christendom" / Soren Kierkegaard ; First Dogmatic Constitution on the church of Christ / First Vatican Council ; Apologia pro vita sua / John Henry Newton ; What is Christianity? / Adolf Harnack ; The quest of the historical Jesus / Albert Schweitzer ; The place of Christianity among the world religions / Ernst Troeltsch -- 7. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Church dogmatics / Karl Barth ; The Barmen Declaration ; Letters and papers from prison / Dietrich Bonhoeffer ; Systematic theology / Charles Hodge ; Christianity and power politics ; New Testament and mythology / Rudolf Bultmann ; Systematic theology / Paul Tillich ; Pastoral constitution on the church in the modern world / Second Vatican Council ; In search of a short formula of the Christian faith / Karl Rahner ; Process and reality / Alfred North Whitehead ; The crucified God / Jurgen Moltmann ; Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 8. NEW VOICES. Black theology in American religion / James H. Cone ; Liberation praxis and Christian faith / Gustavo Gutierrez ; The schism between the church and the world / Evgeny Barabanov ; The encounter of Christian faith and African religion / John Mbiti ; The cross and the lotus / C. S. Song ; Mother Earth and the megamachine / Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.
