Conversational Theology
Essays on Ecumenical, Postliberal, and Political Themes, with Special Reference to Karl Barth
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The essays in this wide-ranging collection fall into three main sections: Ecumenical Theology, Postliberal Theology, and Political Theology. The first section deals with Torrance and Barth on the Sacraments. Hunsinger includes here an examination of Torrance's views of baptism and the eucharist, as well as Karl Barth's voice on the Lord's Supper. He also develops a post-Barthian appreciation of Jews and Judaism. In the second section Hunsinger discusses such figures as Hans W. Frei, Ernst Troeltsch and H.R. Niebuhr in terms of their contribution to Postliberal Theology. The final section offers a discussion of Political Theology, as part of which Hunsinger presents an in-depth analysis regarding the political views of Karl Barth, as well as Barth's understanding of human rights. The book ends with a meditation on André Trocmé and how goodness happened at Le Chambon.
George Hunsinger
George Hunsinger (PhD, Yale University) is Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author of several works on Barth's theology--Reading Barth with Charity, Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth, and How to Read Karl Barth--and author of the much-discussed The Eucharist and Ecumenism. Hunsinger served as director of the Princeton Theological Seminary's Center for Barth Studies from 1997 to 2001 and has been president of the Karl Barth Society of North America since 2003. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he was a major contributor to the new Presbyterian catechism.
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