Fifty Key Christian Thinkers

Peter McEnhill, George Newlands

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134698356
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religious Biographies

Fifty Key Christian Thinkers provides both valuable information and stimulating debate on the lives and work of fifty of the most important Christian theologians. This guide provides an overview of Christian theology from the emergence of the faith 2000 years ago to the present day. Among the figures profiled in this accessible guide are:
* St Paul * Barth
* Aquinas * Boethius
* Niebuhr * Calvin
* Luther * Feuerbach
* Kierkegaard * Origen

INDEX

Abelard, Peter (1079–1142) 3–8, 284;

and atonement 6–7;

background 3;

and doctrine of the Trinity 5–6;

and Héloise 5;

Historia Calamitum 3;

and incarnation 6;

on morality 7;

Scito te ipsum 7;

Sic et Non 7;

Theologia Christiana 6;

Theologia Scholarum 6;

Theologia Summi Boni 5;

and universals 3, 4, 110

Abraham 169–70, 219

Absolute Spirit 136, 137–8, 139, 140, 167, 171

Abwehr 73

Adam 13, 46, 97, 114–15, 152, 153, 166, 218

Albert of Cologne 18

Albert the Great 16

Albinus 67

Alexander, Bishop 26

Ambrose of Milan, Bishop 39, 41

Anabaptists 275, 276

analogy:

Aquinas and doctrine of 24

androcentrism 241

Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) 7, 9–15, 69;

as Archbishop of Canterbury 15;

and atonement theory 6, 13–14, 278;

background 9–10;

Barth’s book on 60–1;

Cur Deus Homo 13;

and doctrine of Trinity 14–15;

‘faith seeking to understand’ phrase 9, 11;

and God 11–13;

Monologion 10;

On the procession of the Holy Spirit 15;

Proslogion 11, 12;

stress on appropriate use of reason 9;

teaching style 9–10;

and universals 20, 110

Anselm of Laon 5

Anthony, St 34

anthropology: and Christology 221

Apollinarius 108

Apologists 151

apostles 227

Apostolic Fathers 158

Aquinas, Thomas (1225–74) 12, 16–24, 99, 156;

background 16–17;

as a biblically orientated theologian 17;

and Christology 22, 23, 24, 63;

and doctrine of analogy 24;

and God 21–2;

influence of 24;

interpretation of Aristode’s philosophy 23–4;

and origins of sin 23...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Chronological list of contents
• Preface
• Abelard
• Anselm
• Aquinas
• Arius
• Athanasius
• Augustine
• Baillie, John and Donald
• Barth
• Boethius
• Bonhoeffer
• Brunner
• Bultmann
• Calvin
• Cappadocian Fathers—Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzen
• Duns Scotus
• Edwards
• Feuerbach
• Forsyth
• Gutiérrez
• Harnack
• Hegel
• Hick
• Irenaeus
• John of Damascus
• Justin Martyr
• Kant
• Kierkegaard
• Küng
• Luther
• Moltmann
• Newman
• Niebuhr
• Origen
• Pannenberg
• Paul
• Rahner
• Reimarus
• Ritschl
• Ruether
• Schleiermacher
• Schüssler-Fiorenza
• Strauss
• Tertullian
• Tillich
• Tracy
• Troeltsch
• Zwingli
• Glossary
• Index