Re: Looking for a timeline of Christain thought...
Originally posted by stech1
I am sorry to devote an entire thread to this, but I am looking for a time line of Christian thought, particularly from the Reformation to the present. I am looking for the major thinkers and their ideas in sort of a historical manner. I am not sure if you'd have to categorize this based upon different provinces, such as German theologians, American, etc. For instance, what was the next major school of thought after or contemporary with Bultmann's New Testament demythologizing and his existential view of theology, etc?
I hope I have posed this question in an understandable way. Web references would be great, but any book or journal recommendations are fine too.
The best thing that you could read related to this is the 5 volume set of books by Jaroslav Pelikan called The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine. He is recognized as one of the greatest Christian scholars of recent times and this series sets out to do exactly what you are asking for starting from early church times up to modern times. Given your interest in reformation to the present period I would suggest you get volumes 4 and 5 which deal with reformation doctrine and modern doctrine and culture. All the volumes use an interesting method of footnoting which makes it quite easy to use the books as a method for going straight to the various sources he is using.
Amazon links for Volume 4 and Volume 5. The paperback editions are quite cheap and an awesome reference.
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