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streams of thought, each of the new theological movements often having a unique method and focus that lead to content that has new contours. For example, A New Handbook of Christian Theology contains articles on theologies that have been born since the 1950s; namely, black, confessional, death of God, deconstructionist, feminist, liberation, Marxist, narrative, political, postmodern, process, and womanist theologies.

      Theologians, students, and laity respond variously to the present theological situation. Some dive deeply into one of the new methodologies and become immersed in radically venturous thought. Others, more conservative in nature, retain allegiance to older approaches, attempting to reform and refine established paradigms of theological thought. Still others, who become more like spectators than participants, view the situation as a revolution in theology that awaits the outcome of the debate and the rise of new, normative approaches. Another group, hearing a cacophony of dissident voices, retreats from theological reflection altogether in anger or despair.

      Believing that the present theological situation is diffuse (because no globally recognized figures or methods dominate) but not chaotic (because clearly defined theological options and promising thinkers are emerging), we have included a pluralism of perspectives in selecting topics and authors. A faint outline of a vaguely defined theological future gestates within the essays in this volume.

      We initiated conversations about editing A New Handbook of Christian Theology in 1987. First, we determined to include only articles on subjects of current interest, not articles of strictly historical significance. We culled possible topics from the initial Handbook, other reference works, but most significantly from our joint understanding of today’s theology. Early on, we recognized that we are not only describing the field; in some sense we are defining the field. We therefore proceeded cautiously and in collaboration with other scholars in the subfields of theology to chart the relevant theological topics that represent the variegated terrain of Christian theological studies. In the several years that we have worked on the project, we have added a couple of topics to our original list (Space and Womanist Theology, for example) because the emerging and communal character of Christian theology has continued to touch new concerns, express new voices, and inspire new visions.

      Because we perceived the current theological scene not to be dominated by any one powerful movement or dominant voice, we ranged across the theological spectrum and the globe to pinpoint writers appropriate for our topics. In some cases we chose established experts with a magisterial command of a topic; in others we tapped younger scholars whose work is known so far only in the proceedings of the theological professional societies and articles tucked away in journals, but whom we judged to have promising futures. Only four of the authors of articles in the earlier Handbook, all of whom were just starting their careers at the time, have been retained to write for A New Handbook of Christian Theology. Fresh voices, including those of women and minorities, are heard in these pages. The authors represent diverse geographical regions and assorted confessional traditions; in fact, some stand outside any explicit version of the Christian tradition. Our aim is to present a set of perspectives that adequately and comprehensively records the situation in theology at the end of the twentieth century.

      Donald W. Musser

      Joseph L. Price

      June 1991

      ROUTES FOR READING

      Biblical Theology—Authority, Biblical Criticism, Biblical Theology, Canon, Christian Theology, Christology, Covenant, Diversity, Embodiment, Eternal Life, God, Holy Spirit, Inerrancy, Inspiration, Kingdom of God, Life, Resurrection, Soul/Body, Sacrifice, Structuralism

      Christ—Atonement, Christology, God, Incarnation, Kingdom of God, Sacrifice, Soteriology, Trinity, Violence

      Churches—Confessional Theology, Diversity, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Ecclesiology, Ecumenism, Evangelicalism, Missiology, Pentecostalism, Pluralism, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Tradition, Vatican II

      Conservative Protestantism—Apocalyptic Theology, Creationism, Dispensationalism, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Inerrancy, Pentecostalism, Protestantism

      Human Being—Alienation, Ambiguity, Anthropology, Autonomy, Diversity, Embodiment, Freedom, Genes/Genetics, Health, Imagination, Life, Nature, Sacrifice, Sanctification, Secularity, Sexuality, Sin, Soul/Body, Suffering, Violence

      Liberation Theologies—Black Theology, CELAM II, Christian Theology, Economics, Feminist Theology, Gay Theology, Language–Gender Specific, Latino/a Theology, Liberation Theology–Latin American, Marxist Theology, Men’s Theology, Mujerista Theology, Poverty, Power/Powerlessness, Praxis, Sacrifice, Silence, Terror, Violence, Womanist Theology

      Philosophical Theology—Agnosticism, Alienation, Apologetics, Atheism, Being/Becoming, Christian Theology, Cosmology, Deconstructionism, Epistemology, Evil, Existential Theology, Heresy/Heterodoxy, Language–Gender Specific, Language–Religious, Metaphysics, Mysticism, Natural Theology, Panentheism, Paradox, Phenomenology, Philosophical Theology, Postmodern Theology, Space, Theism, Time, Transcendence, Truth

      Religion—Civil Religion, Experience–Religious, Faith, Pluralism, Popular Religion, Popular Theology, Religion

      Roman Catholicism—CELAM II, Insight, Moral Theology, Papacy, Priesthood, Roman Catholicism, Vatican II

      Systematic Theology—Anthropology, Atonement, Christian Theology, Christology, Creation, Eternal Life, Dogmatic Theology, Ecclesiology, Election, Eschatology, Evil, Faith, God, Grace, Holy Spirit, Incarnation, Justification, Nature, Providence, Resurrection, Revelation, Sacrifice, Sanctification, Sin, Soteriology, Systematic Theology, Trinity

      Theological Ethics—Diversity, Ecology, Embodiment, Ethics–Christian, Freedom, Genes/Genetics, Holocaust, Hope, Idolatry, Justice, Life, Love, Moral Theology, Nature, Peace/Peacemaking, Poverty, Power/Powerlessness, Sacrifice, Sexuality, Silence, Society, Space, Terror, Violence, Virtue

      Theological Method—Authority, Christian Theology, Correlation, Deconstructionism, Existential Theology, Experience–Religious, Hermeneutics, Language–Gender Specific, Language–Religious, Paradigm, Postmodern Theology, Revelation, Structuralism, Theological Method

      Theological Movements—Apocalyptic Theology, Black Theology, Christian Theology, Death of God Theology, Dispensationalism, Ecological Theology, Empirical Theology, Existential Theology, Feminist Theology, Gay Theology, Latino/a Theology, Liberal Theology, Liberalism, Liberation Theology (Latin American), Liturgical Movement, Marxist Theology, Men’s Theology, Mujerista Theology, Mystical Theology, Narrative Theology, Neoorthodoxy, Political Theology, Popular Theology, Postmodern Theology, Process Theology, Womanist Theology

      Theology and the Arts—Aesthetics, Comedy, Culture, Embodiment, Hermeneutics, Imagination, Metaphor, Myth, Narrative Theology, Symbol, Tragedy

      Theology and the Natural Sciences—Cosmology, Creation, Creationism, Ecological Theology, Genes/Genetics, Life, Naturalism, Nature, Science and Christianity, Space, Technology, Time

      Theology and the Social Sciences—Civil Religion, Economics, Justice, Liminality, Marxist Theology, Political Theology, Poverty, Power/Powerlessness, Practical Theology, Praxis, Science and Christianity, Society, Terror, Violence

      Worship—Baptism, Eucharist, Homiletics, Laity, Liturgical Movement, Mystical Theology, Ordination, Priesthood, Ritual, Sacraments/Sacramental Theology, Silence, Worship

      NEW AND ENLARGED

      HANDBOOK

      OF CHRISTIAN

      THEOLOGY

      AESTHETICS

      Seldom do concerns that we think of as aesthetic occupy the center of attention in Christian life and thought. Whereas one can talk about the ethics of Jesus or the eschatology of Paul, one cannot sensibly talk about Jesus’ aesthetics or Paul’s

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