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This book engages in constructive dialogue with the legacy of the eminent Protestant theologian, Eberhard Jüngel (1934-2021). The essays bring Jüngel's wide-ranging thought to bear on today's theological, philosophical, and socio-cultural challenges.
List of contents
Introduction
Piotr J. Mäysz and R. David Nelson
Chapter One: The Justification Event: A Phenomenological Supplement to Eberhard Jüngel's Doctrine of Justification
Scott Bailey
Chapter Two: "God's Being is in Coming": Eberhard Jüngel's Demythologized Doctrine of the Trinity
David Bruner
Chapter Three: For the Beauty of the Earth?: On Eberhard Jüngel's Theological Aesthetics
Deborah Casewell
Chapter Four: Different Expressions of Justice in Salvation and Providence: Eberhard Jüngel on Theological Anthropology and Justification-with Help from Thomas Aquinas
David C. Chao
Chapter Five: Jüngel's Spiritually light Pneumatology: Reflections on his "Triptych" on the Holy Spirit
Mark W. Elliott
Chapter Six: Jüngel's Concept of Analogy: An Apologia for the Humanity of God
Paolo Gamberini, SJ
Chapter Seven: Metaphorical Truth and Christian Theology: Eberhard Jüngel on the Language of Faith
Paul R. Hinlicky
Chapter Eight: Revisiting Jüngel on the God/World Relation: Creation, Incarnation, and the Doctrine of Analogy
Christopher R.J. Holmes
Chapter Nine: The (Hi)story of God: The Function of Narrative in Eberhard Jüngel's Divine Ontology
C. M. Howell
Chapter Ten: The Trinity and Reality: Trinitarian Doctrine between Grammar and Value
Piotr J. Mäysz
Chapter Eleven: Theory and Praxis in Theology "after" Karl Barth: Eberhard Jüngel and Helmut Gollwitzer on Socialism and Solidarity
W. Travis McMaken
Chapter Twelve: John Webster's Contribution to the Reception of Jüngel's Theology in the Anglophone World
R. David Nelson
Chapter Thirteen: Evoking a Vocative Anthropology: Jüngel and Caputo on Political Pneumatology
B. Keith Putt
Chapter Fourteen: The Staurocentric Logic of Eberhard Jüngel: Pneumatology and Ecclesiology
Kathryn L. Reinhard
Chapter Fifteen: Jüngel's Contribution to a Christian Hatred of Death: An Ecumenical Engagement
Robert Saler
Chapter Sixteen: The Quality of Christian Life and Theology: Some Remarks on Freedom
Philip G. Ziegler
Appendix: The Humanity of God and the Humanity of Humans: Theses on Eberhard Jüngel's Theological Anthropology
Christoph Schwöbel
About the Contributors
About the author
Piotr J. Mäysz is associate professor of divinity at Samford University's Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama.
R. David Nelson is Director of Baylor University Press.
Summary
This book engages in constructive dialogue with the legacy of the eminent Protestant theologian, Eberhard Jüngel (1934-2021). The essays bring Jüngel’s wide-ranging thought to bear on today’s theological, philosophical, and socio-cultural challenges.
