Jngel: A Guide for the Perplexed

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This volume offers an up-to-date introduction to Eberhard Jngel's intellectual formation, publications and influence. Jngel 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 Jngel's thought. By introducing Jngels four major monographs and eleven of his key essays, Nelson is able to assess a number of themes prominent in Jngel'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 Jngel's thought.

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It is a sign of the strength and potential of the field that this text is able to point to future applications of Jngels work even while acknowledging its limitations and legislating between various debates. Although Nelson introduces some caveats, this text does underscore fulsomely that Eberhard Jngel still has much to say to us. * Reading Religion *
R. David Nelson provides for us an excellent guide into the mind of Eberhard Jngel Nelsons offering here provides detailed insights into the great mans thinking, highlights major secondary thinkers, and provides the authors own respectful critiques. Most definitely a worthy read for the student. * Theology *
David Nelson here offers a wonderful entre into the life and work of Eberhard Jngel. Accessible, engaging and insightful, Nelsons expert account of Jngels formative intellectual world and development, as well as his highly instructive field notes to several of Jngels 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 Jngel 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 Jngels 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 Jngel a reliable guidebook to one of the major theologians of the twentieth century. * JOHN BETZ, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, USA *

Author Bio

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