Jüngel: A Guide for the Perplexed

by R. David Nelson

Overview

Eberhard Jüngel is one of the most original and influential Protestant theologians in the generation after Karl Barth. His theology has received fresh interest of late from systematic theologians, biblical scholars and historians of modern Christian thought.

This volume offers an up-to-date introduction to Jüngel's intellectual formation, publications and influence. R. David Nelson guides the reader through the figures, movements and conceptual developments in the background of Jüngel's thought, introduces Jüngel's major monographs and key essays, and assesses a number of themes prominent in Jüngel's theology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567660039
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/14/2019
Series:	Guides for the Perplexed
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

R. David Nelson is the author and editor of several books, including The Interruptive Word and Indicative of Grace-Imperative of Freedom. He is editor of Lutheran Forum.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Foreword by John Webster
1. Introduction
2. Eberhard Jüngel - An Intellectual Genealogy and Biography
3. A Survey of the Literature
4. An Analysis of Major Themes
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"David Nelson here offers a wonderful entrée into the life and work of Eberhard Jüngel. Accessible, engaging and insightful, Nelson's expert account of Jüngel's formative intellectual world and development, as well as his highly instructive "field notes" to several of Jüngel's most import texts will prove an invaluable guide to students and future readers of this important and influential - if often perplexing - modern European theologian." --PHILIP G. ZIEGLER, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, UK

"Eberhard Jüngel is among the most powerful Christian thinkers of our era. In this splendid new work, R. David Nelson offers a sure and reliable guide to the thought of this modern master. His treatment of Jüngel's relevance for ecclesiology and Protestant-Catholic ecumenism is unsurpassed." --JOSEPH MANGINA, WYCLIFFE COLLEGE, CANADA

"Sometimes the thought of a major theologian needs to be distilled by an expert if it is to be appreciated by future generations - and all the more so when the reader is confronted with a variety of works, whose contexts may no longer be understood, and does not know where to begin. Fortunately, David Nelson has provided just what is needed with respect to Eberhard Jüngel - a reliable guidebook to one of the major theologians of the twentieth century." --JOHN BETZ, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, USA

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