Jungel: A Guide for the Perplexed

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This volume offers an up-to-date introduction to Eberhard Jungel's intellectual formation, publications and influence. Jungel is one of the most original and influential Protestant theologians to emerge after Karl Barth, and his theology has received fresh interest of late from systematic theologians, biblical scholars and historians of modern Christian thought. R. David Nelson guides the reader through the figures, movements and conceptual developments in the background of Jungel's thought. By introducing Jungel's four major monographs and eleven of his key essays, Nelson is able to assess a number of themes prominent in Jungel's theology, and to summarize the achievements, challenges, and prospects of his theological contribution. This comprehensive introduction will help the inquisitive student to engage with Jungel's thought.

R. David Nelson is the author and editor of several books, including The Interruptive Word and Indicative of Grace-Imperative of Freedom. He is editor of Lutheran Forum.

It is a sign of the strength and potential of the field that this text is able to point to future applications of Jungel's work even while acknowledging its limitations and legislating between various debates. Although Nelson introduces some caveats, this text does underscore fulsomely that Eberhard Jungel still "has much to say to us." * Reading Religion * R. David Nelson provides for us an excellent guide into the mind of Eberhard Jungel ... Nelson's offering here provides detailed insights into the great man's thinking, highlights major secondary thinkers, and provides the author's own respectful critiques. Most definitely a worthy read for the student. * Theology * David Nelson here offers a wonderful entree into the life and work of Eberhard Jungel. Accessible, engaging and insightful, Nelson's expert account of Jungel's formative intellectual world and development, as well as his highly instructive "field notes" to several of Jungel's most import texts will prove an invaluable guide to students and future readers of this important and influential - if often perplexing - modern European theologian. * PHILIP G. ZIEGLER, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, UK * Eberhard Jungel is among the most powerful Christian thinkers of our era. In this splendid new work, R. David Nelson offers a sure and reliable guide to the thought of this modern master. His treatment of Jungel's relevance for ecclesiology and Protestant-Catholic ecumenism is unsurpassed. * JOSEPH MANGINA, WYCLIFFE COLLEGE, CANADA * Sometimes the thought of a major theologian needs to be distilled by an expert if it is to be appreciated by future generations - and all the more so when the reader is confronted with a variety of works, whose contexts may no longer be understood, and does not know where to begin. Fortunately, David Nelson has provided just what is needed with respect to Eberhard Jungel - a reliable guidebook to one of the major theologians of the twentieth century. * JOHN BETZ, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, USA *