In recent years, the flow of Christian theology has been channeled in diverse streams represented by such trends and movements as black theology, liberation theology, feminist theology, and womanist theology. To survey this abundance and diversity of current Christian theology, this book examines the theologies of representative theologians. Particularly to help students navigate the sea of information, the editors have identified various routes for reading, and have traced several threads or issues common to many of the essays, thus demarcating such recurrent concerns as the ways in which the theologians consider the sources and goals for theology, their variant assumptions and conclusions about the nature of God, their divergent approaches to understanding the person and purpose of the Christ, and their distinct expectations for the destiny of history and faith. In recent years, the flow of Christian theology has been channeled in diverse streams represented by such trends and movements as black theology, liberation theology, feminist theology, and womanist theology. To survey this abundance and diversity of current Christian theology, this book examines the theologies of representative theologians. Particularly to help students navigate the sea of information, the editors have identified various routes for reading, and have traced several threads or issues common to many of the essays, thus demarcating such recurrent concerns as the ways in which the theologians consider the sources and goals for theology, their variant assumptions and conclusions about the nature of God, their divergent approaches to understanding the person and purpose of the Christ, and their distinct expectations for the destiny of history and faith. Donald W. Musser is Senior Professor of Religious Studies and Hal S. Marchman Chair of Civic and Social Responsibility (Emeritus). A New Handbook of Christian Theologians By Donald W. Musser, Joseph L. Price Abingdon Press Copyright © 1996 Abingdon Press All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-687-27803-9 Contents Preface, Routes for Reading, Thomas J. J. Altizer / Theodore W. Jennings, Jr, Asian Theologians / Anselm Kyongsuk Min, Karl Barth / Benjamin C. Leslie, Nicholas Berdyaev / Thomas A. Idinopulos, Donald G. Bloesch / Roger E. Olson, Leonardo Boff / Otto Maduro, Dietrich Bonhoeffer / Geffrey B. Kelly, Emil Brunner / David L. Mueller, John B. Cobb, Jr. / Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, James Hal Cone / M. Shawn Copeland, Mary Daly / Catherine Keller, Avery Dulles / T. Howland Sanks, Gerhard Ebeling / Jack Edmund Brush, Hans W. Frei / Charles Campbell, Langdon Gilkey / Jennifer L. Rike, David Ray Griffin / Nancy R. Howell, James M. Gustafson / Lisa Sowle Cahill, Gustavo Gutiérrez / Mark McClain Taylor, Charles Hartshorne / David Ray Griffin, Carl F. H. Henry / Millard J. Erickson, John Harwood Hick / Chester Gillis, Peter C. Hodgson / Paul Lakeland, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz / Jeanette Rodriguez, Eberhard Jüngel / Volker Spangenberg, trans. D. Dixon Sutherland, Gordon D. Kaufman / M. Thomas Thangaraj, Hans Küng / James J. Bacik, George Lindbeck / Bruce D. Marshall, Sallie McFague / Ellen T. Armour, Thomas Merton / E. Glenn Hinson, John Meyendorff / Thomas Hopko, Jürgen Moltmann / Thorwald Lorenzen, Robert Cummings Neville / J. Harley Chapman, H. Richard Niebuhr / Douglas F. Ottati, Reinhold Niebuhr / Dennis P. McCann, Thomas C. Oden / Jeffrey C. Pugh, Schubert M. Ogden / George L. Goodwin, Raymond (Raimundo) Panikkar / Peter J. Gorday, Wolfhart Pannenberg / Ted Peters, Karl Rahner / Anne Carr, Paul Ricoeur / David Pellauer, Rosemary Radford Ruether / Mary Hembrow Snyder, Edward Schillebeeckx / Mary Catherine Hilkert, Juan Luis Segundo / Roberto S. Goizueta, Jon Sobrino / John T. Ford, Mark C. Taylor / Carl Raschke, Howard Thurman / Theophus (Thee) Smith, Paul Tillich / Warren A. Kay, Thomas F. Torrance / Elmer M. Colyer, David Tracy / John P. McCarthy, Desmond Tutu / Julian Kunnie, Paul M. van Buren / Clark Williamson, Hans Urs von Balthasar / John R. Sachs, Cornel West / Will Coleman, Womanist Theologians / Sheilah M. Jones, Notes on the Contributors, CHAPTER 1 THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER 1927 – Life and Career Thomas Jonathan Jackson Altizer was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1927 and grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. After briefly attending St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, he went to the University of Chicago where he received the A.B. in 1948, the A.M. (with a thesis on Augustine) in 1951, and the Ph.D. (with a thesis on Greek and Eastern religious philosophy) in 1955. After teaching at Wabash College (1954–1956), he moved to Emory University where he remained until 1968, serving as Professor of Bible and Religion as well as teaching in the Institute of Liberal Arts and the Graduate Division of Religion. It was during this time that the distinctive themes of Altizer's radical theology came to init