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The great theologians : a brief guide / Gerald R. McDermott.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2010.Description: 214 p. : 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780830838752 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0830838759
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 230.092/2 22
LOC classification:
  • BT21.3 .M33 2010
Contents:
Why study theology? -- Origen : oft-reviled but the greatest teacher after the apostles -- Athanasius : the black monk who saved the faith -- Augustine : the most influential theologian ever -- Thomas Aquinas : the teacher of the Catholic Church -- Martin Luther : the monk who rose up against heaven and earth -- John Calvin : greatest theologian of the reformed tradition -- Jonathan Edwards : America's theologian -- Friedrich Schleiermacher : father of liberal theology -- John Henry Newman : Anglican theologian who swam the Tiber -- Karl Barth : most influential twentieth-century theologian -- Hans Urs von Balthasar : stellar Catholic theologian of the twentieth century -- What these theologians teach us about theology.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why study theology? -- Origen : oft-reviled but the greatest teacher after the apostles -- Athanasius : the black monk who saved the faith -- Augustine : the most influential theologian ever -- Thomas Aquinas : the teacher of the Catholic Church -- Martin Luther : the monk who rose up against heaven and earth -- John Calvin : greatest theologian of the reformed tradition -- Jonathan Edwards : America's theologian -- Friedrich Schleiermacher : father of liberal theology -- John Henry Newman : Anglican theologian who swam the Tiber -- Karl Barth : most influential twentieth-century theologian -- Hans Urs von Balthasar : stellar Catholic theologian of the twentieth century -- What these theologians teach us about theology.