The Journey of Modern Theology : From Reconstruction to Deconstruction
- luminacollege
- Aug 29
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Each month, we feature a book from the Lumina College Library handpicked by our librarian. This month's Book of the Month is:
Title: The Journey of Modern Theology : From Reconstruction to Deconstruction
Publisher： InterVarsity Press
Author： Roger E. Olson
Synopsis
Modernity has been an age of revolutions—political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the "acids of modernity." Modern theology is the result of this struggle to think responsibly about God within the modern cultural ethos.
In this major revision and expansion of the classic 20th Century Theology (1992), co-authored with Stanley J. Grenz, Roger Olson widens the scope of the story to include a fuller account of modernity, more material on the nineteenth century and an engagement with postmodernity. More importantly, the entire narrative is now recast in terms of how theologians have accommodated or rejected the Enlightenment and scientific revolutions. With that question in mind, Olson guides us on the epic journey of modern theology, from the liberal "reconstruction" of theology that originated with Friedrich Schleiermacher to the postliberal and postmodern "deconstruction" of modern theology that continues today.
The Journey of Modern Theology is vintage Olson: eminently readable, panoramic in scope, at once original and balanced, and marked throughout by a passionate concern for the church's faithfulness to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This will no doubt become another standard text in historical theology.
About the author
Roger E. Olson (PhD, Rice University) is professor of theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is the author of The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition Reform, The Mosaic of Christian Belief: Twenty Centuries of Unity Diversity and Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities (all InterVarsity Press).
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اختيار شركة نقل عفش محترفة في أبو عريش وأحد المسارحة هو الحل الأمثل لتجنب أي أضرار للأثاث أو تأخير في عملية الانتقال. افضل شركة نقل عفش بالرياض توفر فريق عمل مدرب على التعامل مع جميع أنواع الأثاث، مع سيارات مجهزة بأحدث المعدات لضمان نقل كل قطعة بأمان.توفر دينا نقل عفش بالرياض حلولًا متكاملة تشمل التغليف، التفكيك، التركيب والنقل الداخلي والخارجي، مع الالتزام الكامل بالمواعيد وجودة الأداء لضمان تجربة نقل سلسة وخالية من المتاعب.كما تقدم دينا نقل عفش غرب الرياض خدمات متخصصة للمناطق الغربية، مع سيارات مجهزة بالكامل لتسهيل النقل الآمن والسريع للعفش الكبير والفخم. الاعتماد على هذه الشركات يضمن للعملاء تجربة نقل آمنة ومنظمة.