The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

526 Pages·2003·2.56 MB·English

by  Darren C. Marks

The Blackwell Companion
to Protestantism
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The Blackwell Companion
to Protestantism
Edited by
Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks
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The Blackwell companion to Protestantism / edited by Alister E. McGrath and
Darren C. Marks.
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1. Protestantism. I. McGrath, Alister E., 1953– II. Marks, Darren C. III. Series.
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Contents
Contributors ix
Foreword xiv
Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks
Introduction: Protestantism – the Problem of Identity 1
Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks
Part I The Formation of Protestant Identity:
History and Ideology 21
European Protestantism
1 Protestantism in German-speaking Lands to the Present Day 23
Randall C. Zachman
2 Shapers of Protestantism: Martin Luther 40
Graham Tomlin
3 Shapers of Protestantism: John Calvin 53
Alister E. McGrath
4 Shapers of Protestantism: F. D. E. Schleiermacher 66
Nicholas Adams
5 Shapers of Protestantism: Karl Barth 83
John Webster
6 English Protestantism to the Present Day 96
Gerald Bray
7 Scottish Protestantism to the Present Day 109
Kenneth B. E. Roxburgh
vi contents
8 Welsh Protestantism to the Present Day 120
D. Densil Morgan
9 Irish Protestantism to the Present Day 123
Alan Ford
10 Nordic Protestantism to the Present Day 130
Aasulv Lande
11 Protestantism in the Netherlands to the Present Day 147
Peter van Rooden
12 Protestantism in Eastern Europe to the Present Day 155
Parush Parushev and Toivo Pilli
13 French Protestantism to the Present Day 161
Alister E. McGrath
14 Italian Protestantism to the Present Day 163
Alister E. McGrath
North American Protestantism
15 Protestantism in the United States of America to the Present Day 165
John Corrigan
16 Shapers of Protestantism: Jonathan Edwards 181
Stephen R. Holmes
17 Canadian Protestantism to the Present Day 189
Darren C. Marks
Asia and Australasia
18 Indian Protestantism to the Present Day 201
Ivan Morris Satyavrata
19 South-East Asian Protestantism to the Present Day 206
Yung Hwa
20 Japanese Protestantism to the Present Day 210
Nozomo Miyahira
21 Korean Protestantism to the Present Day 216
Young-Gi Hong
22 Chinese Protestantism to the Present Day 222
Carver T. Yu
23 Protestantism in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania to the
Present Day 232
Ian Breward
contents vii
Africa
24 African Protestantism to the Present Day 239
John S. Pobee
Part II Protestantism and Present Identity:
Relations and Influence 249
Protestantism and its Relations
25 Protestantism and the Bible 251
R. Kendall Soulen
26 Protestantism and the Arts 268
Trevor Hart
27 Protestantism and Politics, Economics, and Sociology 287
J. Philip Wogaman
28 Protestantism, Law and Legal Thought 298
John Witte Jr.
29 Protestantism and the Sciences 306
Ted Peters
Protestantism and its Influence
30 Protestantism and Liberalism 322
Mark D. Chapman
31 Protestantism and Feminism 332
Cynthia L. Rigby
32 Protestantism and Fundamentalism 344
William V. Trollinger Jr.
33 Protestantism and Racism 357
Paul R. Griffin
34 Protestantism and Judaism 372
Clark M. Williamson
35 Protestantism and Spirituality 382
Bradley P. Holt
36 Protestantism and Missions 392
Werner Ustorf
Part III The Future of Protestantism 403
37 The Future of Protestantism: Ecumenism and the Mainline
Denominations 405
Alan D. Falconer
viii contents
38 The Future of Protestantism: Evangelicalism 421
Mark A. Noll
39 The Future of Protestantism: The Rise of Pentecostalism 439
Allan Anderson
40 The Future of Protestantism: Postmodernity 453
Graham Ward
41 The Future of Protestantism: The Non-Western Protestant World 468
Allan Anderson
Index 483
Contributors
Alister E. McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University,
and Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He studied at the Universities of Oxford
and Cambridge, and served in a parish in Nottingham before joining the staff at
Wycliffe, where he now teaches in the area of systematic theology, science and
religion, spirituality, and apologetics. His most recent publications are the
three-volume work, A Scientific Theology(2001–3), andThe Intellectual Origins of
the European Reformation (2nd edn., 2003). He is also the author of numerous
best-selling books, including A Brief History of Heaven (2003), Christian Theol-
ogy: An Introduction (3rd edn., 2001), The Christian Theology Reader (2nd edn.,
2001), Christian Spirituality (1999), Reformation Thought (3rd edn., 1999),
Science and Religion (1998), Historical Theology(1998), and An Introduction to
Christianity(1997), all available from Blackwell Publishing.
Darren C. Markslectures in systematic theology and religious studies at Huron
University College at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.He holds
degrees in science and theology from the University of Toronto (Victoria and
Wycliffe College) and advanced degrees in theology from the University of Oxford
(St Hugh’s College) under the supervision of Professor J. Webster. He has also
studied at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universität (Bonn) under Professor Dr G.
Sauter. He is the author of numerous articles in systematic theology, Canadian
ecclesiastical history, and the editor of Shaping a Theological Mind (2003). His
primary research area is contemporary systematic theology although his doc-
toral work dealt with nineteenth-century German Protestant theology (Julius
Müller and the Mediating Theology). Dr Marks is currently working on several
publishing projects, including a text on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
theologians, a work on the doctrine of sin, and articles including George Grant
and the Theologia Crucis, as well comparing the possibilities of a Christomorphic
metanoia inJames H. Cone and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.