Böcker av Frederick Herzog

This long-standing series provides the guild of religion scholars a venue for publishing aimed primarily at colleagues. It includes scholarly monographs, revised dissertations, Festschriften, conference papers, and translations of ancient and medieval documents. Works cover the sub-disciplines of biblical studies, history of Christianity, history of religion, theology, and ethics. Festschriften for Karl Barth, Donald W. Dayton, James Luther Mays, Margaret R. Miles, and Walter Wink are among the seventy-five volumes that have been published. Contributors include: C. K. Barrett, Francois Bovon, Paul S. Chung, Marie-Helene Davies, Frederick Herzog, Ben F. Meyer, Pamela Ann Moeller, Rudolf Pesch, D. Z. Phillips, Rudolf Schnackenburgm Eduard Schweizer, John Vissers

This long-standing series provides the guild of religion scholars a venue for publishing aimed primarily at colleagues. It includes scholarly monographs, revised dissertations, Festschriften, conference papers, and translations of ancient and medieval documents. Works cover the sub-disciplines of biblical studies, history of Christianity, history of religion, theology, and ethics. Festschriften for Karl Barth, Donald W. Dayton, James Luther Mays, Margaret R. Miles, and Walter Wink are among the seventy-five volumes that have been published. Contributors include: C. K. Barrett, Francois Bovon, Paul S. Chung, Marie-Helene Davies, Frederick Herzog, Ben F. Meyer, Pamela Ann Moeller, Rudolf Pesch, D. Z. Phillips, Rudolf Schnackenburgm Eduard Schweizer, John Vissers

Frederick Herzog''s focus on the praxis context of the church is right on target. He makes a much needed contribution to the critical development of liberation theologies in the North American situation."" --Letty M. Russell Yale University Divinity SchoolI am particularly grateful for the clear articulation in the book of a number of concerns emerging in Third World theology, such as the recognition of poverty as a political and not a natural phenomenon, the shift from elite-universals to peoples'' universals, the emphasis on Christopraxis as the key to orthodoxy, the interpretation of theology as praxis seeking understanding, and the emphasis on the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord''s Supper as affirming that the bifurcation of history into a bodily history and spiritual history has been overcome. I hope that the book will be widely read in all continents and stimulate dialogue for promoting praxis-rooted theology."" --J. Russell Chandran, United Theological College, Bangalore, IndiaHerzog refuses to do an easy or obvious theology, but insists on raising difficult questions which require theology to be done with some anguish. He has seen more clearly than most that we are in a crisis of categories, which must be reshaped in shattering ways, not only to do a new theology, but to re-understand the nature of theology. Members of the United Church of Christ, his own church body, will especially benefit from Herzog''s proposals as this militantly ''liberal'' church is urged in critical and self-critical directions."" --Walter Brueggemann, Professor Emeritus, Columbia Theological SeminaryNo one has been more passionately involved than Frederick Herzog in responding to the challenges to mainstream North American Christianity from Latin American and black liberation theologians. Addressing liberal Protestant theology and denominational structures in ''Justice Church,'' Herzog unfolds a new theological method and a new understanding of the church. This is an important book for all who believe that Christian faith involves response to injustice."" --Lee Cormie, University of St. Michael''s College, University of TorontoFrederick Herzog was Professor at the Duke University Divinity School. He served on numerous commissions of the World Council of Churches and the United Church of Christ. In the spring of 1970 he wrote the first North American article on liberation theology, and in 1972 his ''Liberation Theology'' was published, a study of the Fourth Gospel described by Robert McAfee Brown as a pioneer North American work."" In ''Justice Church'' Herzog continues his pioneering work with a North American methodology of liberation theology.

""Challenging and disturbing and ultimately healing."" --Robert McAfee Brown, author of Liberation Theology: An Introductory GuideFrederick Herzog was Professor at the Duke University Divinity School. He served on numerous commissions of the World Council of Churches and the United Church of Christ. In the spring of 1970 he wrote the first North American article on liberation theology, and in 1972 his 'Liberation Theology' was published, a study of the Fourth Gospel described by Robert McAfee Brown as a ""pioneer North American work."" In 'Justice Church' Herzog continues his pioneering work with a North American methodology of liberation theology.

Description:Liberation Theology is the first serious acknowledgment by a white theologian of the challenge of Black Theology. It invites American theology to reconsider radically its foundations and to reorder its priorities.At a time when theology is often presented piecemeal, Frederick Herzog undertakes to ground Liberation Theology in the originating events of the Christian faith as a whole - in this instance, in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as given in the Fourth Gospel. The systematic readings in the Gospel which he makes and from which emerge the principles of Liberation Theology are the heart of this book. Throughout, the author asks: How do we understand Christ as Liberator? The answer to this question, he maintains, determines whether or not we are still able to contemplate the Word as power and action.Written with contemporary directness and free of vague abstractions, the book casts theology into a new form to meet today''s needs. The method of this new theology is confrontation, not correlation; its goal is liberation, not reformation; and it strives for a new space of freedom among people captive to the dehumanizing structures of modern theology.Endorsements:""This is a new way of doing theology. Dr. Herzog''s book is biblically oriented and is speaking a liberation language in the concrete trouble spots of our society at the same time. It may be the trailblazer of a relevant Christian lifestyle.""-J├╝rgen Moltmann""A radical, risky, and powerful interpretation of the Fourth Gospel for our time as the call to liberation. In Herzog''s passionate hermeneutic, St. John is understood in the light of the new politics, black consciousness, and the need for a corporate self and so for a new social and personal world. Less dogmatic and one-sided than the futurist eschatologies, this creative wedding of biblical interpretation and radical politics makes a real contribution, from which I have learned a great deal, to our barren American theological and churchly scene.""-Langdon Gilkey""In a time like ours, when theologians are on the hunt for meaningful language about God and when many people are unclear and confused about God language, what Herzog has to say deserves very much to be in the center of theological discussion. This would not be the first time that the Bible has revitalized theology, faith, and the life of the church.""-Paul L. LehmanAbout the Contributor(s):Frederick Herzog (1925-1995) was born in Ashley, North Dakota, from German parents. He studiedtheology in Germany and Switzerland, got his doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary, taughtat Mission House Seminary in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and was the last thirty-five years of his life professor ofsystematic theology at Duke University, where he initiated intensive academic exchanges with Bonn,Germany, and Lima, Peru. In the spring of 1970 he wrote the first North American article on LiberationTheology. In 1972 his Liberation Theology: Liberation in the Light of the Fourth Gospel forged a newway of writing theology by letting it grow out of biblical thoughts and images as well as the wrenchingexperiences of the civil rights struggle in the U.S. South. It was a daring challenge to traditional whitetheology, asking it to ""become black"" in solidarity with ""the wretched of the earth.""