Jüngel: A Guide for the Perplexed

It is a sign of the strength and potential of the field that this text is able to point to future applications of Jüngel’s work even while acknowledging its limitations and legislating between various debates. Although Nelson introduces some caveats, this text does underscore fulsomely that Eberhard Jüngel still “has much to say to us.” * Reading Religion *
R. David Nelson provides for us an excellent guide into the mind of Eberhard Jüngel … Nelson’s offering here provides detailed insights into the great man’s thinking, highlights major secondary thinkers, and provides the author’s own respectful critiques. Most definitely a worthy read for the student. * Theology *
David Nelson here offers a wonderful entrée into the life and work of Eberhard Jüngel. Accessible, engaging and insightful, Nelson’s expert account of Jüngel’s formative intellectual world and development, as well as his highly instructive “field notes” to several of Jüngel’s most import texts will prove an invaluable guide to students and future readers of this important and influential – if often perplexing – modern European theologian. * PHILIP G. ZIEGLER, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, UK *
Eberhard Jüngel is among the most powerful Christian thinkers of our era. In this splendid new work, R. David Nelson offers a sure and reliable guide to the thought of this modern master. His treatment of Jüngel’s relevance for ecclesiology and Protestant-Catholic ecumenism is unsurpassed. * JOSEPH MANGINA, WYCLIFFE COLLEGE, CANADA *
Sometimes the thought of a major theologian needs to be distilled by an expert if it is to be appreciated by future generations – and all the more so when the reader is confronted with a variety of works, whose contexts may no longer be understood, and does not know where to begin. Fortunately, David Nelson has provided just what is needed with respect to Eberhard Jüngel – a reliable guidebook to one of the major theologians of the twentieth century. * JOHN BETZ, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, USA *