Synopses & Reviews
An in-depth, interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary religion and its issues. Covers materials fully by using self-contained chapters and sections that are relatively independent of each other. It also reflects on the many new developments in religion with several complete chapter rewrites. For anyone interested in Modern Religion.
Table of Contents
I. NATURAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION. 1. David Hume: A Skeptic Examines Religious Beliefs. 2. Rudolf Bultmann: Beyond the Conflict of Science and Religion—An Existential Faith.
II. BIOLOGY AND RELIGION. 3. Charles Darwin and Darwinism: A Naturalized World and a Brutalized Man?
4. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: The Christianization of Evolution.
III. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND RELIGION. 5. Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalytic Diagnosis—Infantile Illusion.
6. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Religionless Christianity—Maturity, Transcendence and Freedom.
7. Erik H. Erikson: Psychosocial Resources for Faith.
IV. SOCIAL THEORY AND RELIGION. 8. Karl Marx: Religion as Social Narcotic and Reactionary Ideology.
9. Reinhold Niebuhr: Religion Fosters Social Criticism and Promotes Social Justice.
10. Liberation Theology: Gustavo Gutiérrez and James Cone.
11. Jewish and Christian Feminist Theologies.
V. HISTORY AND RELIGION. 12. Ernst Troeltsch: Modern Historical Thought and the Validity of Religious Truth.
13. Paul Tillich: The Relative and the Ultimate in the Encounter of Religions.
14. Karl Rahner and Beyond: A New Meeting of World Religions.
Name and Subject Indexes.