Table of Contents

IntroductionTheology and Empires: Joerg RiegerTheology and Social Theory: Kwok Pui-lanOn Reading the Theological Canon: Don Compier Theological FiguresPaul: Tatha WileyAthanasius (298-373): Sheila BriggsAugustine (354-430): Anthony Chvala-SmithBoniface (c.672-754): Marion GrauTheodore the Studite (759-826): Ian McFarlandAnselm (c.1033-1109): Darby RayMechtild (c.1210-c.1285): Wendy FarleyThomas Aquinas (1225-1274): Mark D. JordanJulian of Norwich (1342-1416): Shelly RamboMartin Luther (1483-1546): Deanna ThompsonBartolome de Las Casas (1484-1566): Hjamil A. Martinez-VazquezJohn Calvin (1509-1564): Don CompierSor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695): Michele GonzalezJonathan Edwards (1703-1758): Don SchweitzerJohn Wesley (1703-1791): Ted JenningsAnn Lee (1736-1784): Linda MecadanteFriedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834): Joerg RiegerG.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831): David KamitsukaSoren Kierkegaard (1813-1855): Edward AntonioFrederick Douglass (1818-1895): Dwight HopkinsWilliam Temple (1881-1944): Ellen WondraKarl Barth (1886-1968): Cynthia RigbyHendrick Kraemer (1888-1965): Jan PrangerReinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971): Larry RasmussenKarl Rahner (1904-1984): Susan AbrahamDietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945): David FieldSimone Weil (1909-1943): Inese RatzinsM.M. Thomas (1916-1996): Sathianathan ClarkeJuan Luis Segundo (1925-1996): Roger HaightJohn Mbiti (b. 1931): Jim Perkinson

About the Author

Don H. Compier is founding Dean and Professor of Theology at Community of Christ Seminary, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa.Kwok Pui-lan is Professor of Theology at Episcopal Divinity School.Joerg Rieger is Professor of Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. He is author of Remember the Poor: The Challenge to Theology in the Twenty-first Century (1998) and God and the Excluded: Visions and Blindspots in Contemporary Theology (Fortress Press, 2000). He is also editor of Liberating the Future: God, Mammon, and Theology (Fortress Press, 1998) and Theology from the Belly of the Whale: A Frederick Herzog Reader.