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This volume is a collection of 33 essays, sermons, and contemporaneous addresses by Paul L. Lehmann, some of which are published here for the first time. The material addresses the revolutionary dimension of Protestant thought, the contextual character of theological ethics, and the humanizing power of the gospel.
List of contents
Part I: The Direction of Theology Today
Introduction to Part I
1. The Direction of Theology Today (1946)
2. Contextual Theology (1972)
3. The Context of Theological Inquiry (1956)
4. The Formative Power of Particularity (1963)
5. The Dynamics of Reformation Ethics (1950)
6. Barth and Brunner: The Dilemma of the Protestant Mind (1940)
7. The Ant and the Emperor (1998)
8. Theologians Who Have Influenced Me [Reinhold Niebuhr] (1970)
9. Louise Pettibone Smith, Rudolf Bultmann, and Wellesley (1985)
Part II: The Revolutionary Dimension of the Gospel
Introduction to Part II
10. The Shape of Theology for a World in Revolution (1965)
11. Toward a Protestant Analysis of the Ethical Problem (1944)
12. The Politics of Easter (1980)
13. Piety, Power, and Politics: Church and Ministry Between Ratification and Resistance (1982)
14. The Christian Faith and Civil Liberties (1952)
15. Karl Barth, Theologian of Permanent Revolution (1972)
16. Black Theology and "Christian" Theology (1975)
17. The Transfig
About the author
Nancy J. Duff is the Stephen Colwell Associate Professor of Christian Ethics Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ. Ry O. Siggelkow is the director of the Leadership Center for Social Justice at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN.
Summary
This volume is a collection of 33 essays, sermons, and contemporaneous addresses by Paul L. Lehmann, some of which are published here for the first time. The material addresses the revolutionary dimension of Protestant thought, the contextual character of theological ethics, and the humanizing power of the gospel.
