About Volume I

Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Volume I, Christianity is complete with 170,000 pages, comprising 3,645 items.

Volume I on Christianity currently features more than 250 authors from Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America, including:

  • Karl Barth
  • Donald Bloesch
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Leonardo Boff
  • Sergius Bulgakov
  • Rudolf Bultmann
  • Helder Camara
  • Mary Daly
  • Ivone Gebara
  • Henri de Lubac
  • Gustavo Gutièrrez
  • Stanley Hauerwas
  • Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
  • Bernard Lonergan
  • Dmitry Sergeyeyevic Merezhkovsky
  • John Milbank
  • Jurgen Moltmann
  • Mercy Amba Oduyoye
  • Wolfhart Pannenberg
  • Pope Benedict XVI
  • Rosemary Radford Ruether
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Jon Sobrino
  • Dorothee Sölle
  • Ernst Troeltsch
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Adolf von Harnack
  • Rowan Williams
  • John Howard Yoder

Editorial Board and Partners

An editorial board advises on the selection of materials. Experts currently include:

Diane Apostolos-Cappadona

Christian studies professor at Georgetown University

Zayn Kassam

Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Pomona College

Yvonne Haddad

Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University

Samir Mamoud

Lecturer, American University of Beirut

Rosemary Radford Ruether

Professor of Feminist Theology at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University

David L. Stubbs

Professor of Ethics and Theology at Western Theological Seminary

David Thomas

Professor of Christianity and Islam/Nadir Dinshaw Professor of Inter Religious Relations at University of Birmingham

 

The collection incorporates content from the field's leading partners including Christian Kaiser Verlag, Fortress Press, Gütersloher Verlagshause, Ignatius Press, Oxford University Press, Westminster John Knox Press, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Wipf and Stock.

About the series/future volumes

Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume I: Christianity is the first in a four-volume series that includes Volume II: IslamVolume III: Judaism, and Volume IV: Eastern Religions. Upon completion, it will include more than 500,000 pages of seminal texts.

Developed under the guidance of specialists in the field, the series provides a comprehensive and rare assemblage of important and unique materials, the essential works documenting religious thinking in the 20th century.

Key concepts and theories, such as ethics, truth, emptiness, doctrine, and reincarnation, will be explored and examined across religions, while specific dogmas and philosophies will also be studied in-depth. Students and scholars will experience the conversations within and among schools of thought through the key authors who have shaped the conversations and understandings.

Once completed, the four volumes of Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library will constitute a major resource on all aspects of theological thought, dialogue, and experience across cultures, laying the foundation for historical and contemporary understandings.

Content suggestions

If you would like to recommend additional content for inclusion in the database, you can contact the editor at nduval@astreetpress.com

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