Theology for the Future

In this book, contributors discuss and highlight the enduring promise of the insights from the theological project of Wolfhart Pannenberg. Each chapter analyzes and discusses a component of Pannenberg’s theology with an eye to demonstrating its enduring promise for contemporary and future theological construction.

Wolfhart Pannenberg was one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, and his work has much to offer contemporary theologians. In this book, the contributors analyze and discusses a component of Pannenberg’s theology with an eye to demonstrating its enduring promise for contemporary and future theological construction. Topics discussed include Pannenberg’s theological method, defense of the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection, doctrine of God, doctrine of the Trinity, theory of time, doctrine of creation, doctrine of salvation, and public theology.

Chapter 1. More Than a Promise: Theology on the Basis of Philosophy

Katrin Gülden Le Maire

Chapter 2. Anticipation, Truth, and Tradition: A Reflection on the Reliability and Flexibility of Christian Truth Claims

Theodore James Whapham

Chapter 3. Signs of the Way Forward: From Hermeneutic to Semiotic in Pannenberg’s Theology

Andrew Hollingsworth

Chapter 4. Pannenberg’s Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus

William Lane Craig

Chapter 5. Pannenberg’s Trinitarian Theology

Fred Sanders

Chapter 6. The Futurity of God in Pannenberg’s Theology

Roger E. Olson

Chapter 7. Pannenberg on Time and Eternity: Three Topics in Theology and Science

Robert John Russell

Chapter 8. Redemption as Creation: The Future of Pannenberg’s Future

Ted Peters

Chapter 9. Plurality and Salvation: Possibilities in Pannenberg’s Soteriology for Comparative Theology

Kristin Johnston Largen

Chapter 10. The Coming Kingdom: Pastoral Implications for Pannenberg’s Public Theology

Page Brooks