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This essential resource provides introductions to fifteen classics of 19th and 20th-century Protestant theology, ranging from Schleiermacher's The Christian Faith to Dorothy Sayers's The Mind of the Maker to Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics.

Each chapter gives a sketch of the author's life, traces the main themes of their classic work, and indicates the impact of each theologian and their approach. By including known works and introducing new contributions into the story, Vander Lugt expands standard notions of the theological canon and provides a refreshing retelling of how Protestant theology has developed over the last two hundred years.

Students of theology and Christian leaders will find this an accessible introduction to a rich and dense theological world.

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Acknowledgements

Foreword: Kelly M. Kapic

Introduction

1. Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith (1821)
2. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (1821)
3. Søren Kierkegaard, Practice in Christianity (1850)
4. Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology (1871-72)
5. Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)
6. Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker (1941)
7. Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith (1957)
8. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics (1932-1967)
9. James Cone, Black Theology and Black Power (1969)
10. Kosuke Koyama, Water Buffalo Theology (1974)
11. José Míguez Bonino, Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation (1975)
12. George Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (1984)
13. Sallie McFague, Models of God: Theology for an Ecumenical, Nuclear Age (1987)
14. Kwame Bediako, Theology and Identity: The Impact of Culture Upon Christian Thought in the Second Century and in Modern Africa (1992)
15. Delores S. Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (1993)

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Published 20 Aug 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 200
ISBN 9780567718020
Imprint T&T Clark
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Wesley Vander Lugt is Acting Director of the Leigh…

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